{"id":1183,"date":"2025-05-26T13:50:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T13:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pst.inthemaking.be\/pst\/blog\/2025\/05\/26\/meta-signs-650mw-solar-power-deal-with-aes-for-data-centers-in-texas-and-kansas-power-systems-technology-news\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T17:43:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T17:43:34","slug":"meta-signs-650mw-solar-power-deal-with-aes-for-data-centers-in-texas-and-kansas-power-systems-technology-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pst.inthemaking.be\/pst\/meta-signs-650mw-solar-power-deal-with-aes-for-data-centers-in-texas-and-kansas-power-systems-technology-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta Signs 650MW Solar Power Deal with AES for Data Centers in Texas and Kansas"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 data-start=\"291\" data-end=\"621\"><strong data-start=\"291\" data-end=\"299\">Meta<\/strong> has signed two <strong data-start=\"315\" data-end=\"351\">Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs)<\/strong> with U.S. utility and power generation company <strong data-start=\"399\" data-end=\"406\">AES<\/strong>, securing <strong data-start=\"417\" data-end=\"439\">650 megawatts (MW)<\/strong> of solar energy in <strong data-start=\"459\" data-end=\"468\">Texas<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"473\" data-end=\"483\">Kansas<\/strong>. The energy will be supplied to the <strong data-start=\"520\" data-end=\"550\">Southwest Power Pool (SPP)<\/strong>, a regional transmission organization covering 14 central U.S. states.<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"623\" data-end=\"914\">The solar projects, though undisclosed in detail, will support Meta\u2019s growing network of data centers in the region, furthering its goal to operate fully on <strong data-start=\"780\" data-end=\"800\">renewable energy<\/strong>. The agreements underscore Meta\u2019s commitment to expanding its clean energy portfolio as data center demand rises.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"916\" data-end=\"1232\">This deal builds on a series of renewable energy initiatives by Meta, which recently signed agreements with <strong data-start=\"1024\" data-end=\"1031\">RWE<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1036\" data-end=\"1060\">Sunraycer Renewables<\/strong> for both power and environmental attributes. It also follows AES\u2019s continued activity in the tech sector, having secured similar PPAs with <strong data-start=\"1200\" data-end=\"1213\">Microsoft<\/strong> earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1234\" data-end=\"1432\">The new contracts with AES will contribute to new solar capacity being added to the SPP grid, helping meet Meta\u2019s 100% renewable energy target while supporting broader decarbonization in the region.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source:&nbsp;datacenterdynamics.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta has signed two Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) with U.S. utility and power generation company AES, securing 650 megawatts (MW) of solar energy in Texas and Kansas. The energy will be supplied to the Southwest Power Pool (SPP), a regional transmission organization covering 14 central U.S. states. &nbsp; The solar projects, though undisclosed in detail, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3294,"featured_media":908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[808],"tags":[782],"class_list":["post-1183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news","tag-pstus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pst.inthemaking.be\/pst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pst.inthemaking.be\/pst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pst.inthemaking.be\/pst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pst.inthemaking.be\/pst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pst.inthemaking.be\/pst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pst.inthemaking.be\/pst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7407,"href":"https:\/\/pst.inthemaking.be\/pst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions\/7407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pst.inthemaking.be\/pst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pst.inthemaking.be\/pst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pst.inthemaking.be\/pst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pst.inthemaking.be\/pst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}