French integrated energy company TotalEnergies has secured a 21-year deal to supply renewable energy to power Google’s data centres in Malaysia, as per an official press release.
As part of the agreement, TotalEnergies will supply Google a total of 20 MW in renewable energy. The supply is expected to come from a solar plant in the North Kedah province of the country.
The update comes as the energy needs for tech companies and their data centres continue to skyrocket. The deal marks a shift to renewable energy for this very purpose.
According to the International Energy Agency, energy needs for data centres vary depending on the size of the infrastructure. Large hyperscaler data centres—which are commonly the choice of infrastructure among tech and AI companies now—require an average of 100MW of energy, estimated to be 300-400 electric cars’ worth of energy.
“We’re thrilled to build on our collaboration with TotalEnergies in Malaysia,” said Google’s head of Clean Energy & Power for the Asia Pacific region.
This agreement is a key part of our strategy to make meaningful investments that benefit the economies where we operate. By enabling this new clean capacity, we are supporting local growth of the electricity system hosting our infrastructure,” he also said.