A colossal Nevada data center will host the largest customer-sited solar-storage project in the world.
Data center operator Switch plans to buy power for its record-breaking Citadel facility from an adjacent project developed and owned by Capital Dynamics. A 60 megawatt/240 megawatt-hour Tesla Megapack installation will turn 127 megawatts of solar capacity into a nearly 24-7 power source.
This marks one entry in a broader effort by Switch founder and CEO Rob Roy to meet his company’s energy needs with clean energy investment in its home base of Nevada. But while plenty of tech companies have purchased clean energy to account for their power consumption, and some have required clean energy produced in the regions where it is consumed, none have produced it at their own facilities at this scale.
