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Hungry for green power, tech giants choose between utilities, independent developers

March 12, 2019

As tech companies and other large energy consumers are increasingly focusing on shifting toward a cleaner power supply, they face a choice to work with utilities or directly with developers.

Microsoft announced on Thursday a deal with developer Invenergy for a new 74 MW solar project in North Carolina. The company has been aggressively investing in renewable energy to power 60% of its data centers with renewable energy by early 2020.

On Wednesday, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) published a blog post to promote the addition of 674 MW of new solar capacity to serve data centers by Google and Facebook, procurements that had already been announced.

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