NextEra Energy, Google Cloud announce energy, technology partnershp

NextEra Energy (NEE) and Google Cloud (GOOG, GOOGL) announced a significant expansion in their long-standing energy and technology collaboration. Together, the companies will partner to develop multiple, new gigawatt-scale data center campuses with accompanying generation and capacity. The two companies will also collaborate on NextEra Energy’s enterprise-wide digital transformation, using Google Cloud AI and infrastructure, to accelerate the company’s industry-leading technological innovation and AI deployment. In addition, NextEra Energy and Google Cloud will collaborate to enhance these technological innovations and AI developments to accelerate go to market. These efforts aim to transform the energy sector, supporting accelerated buildouts of data centers and the energy infrastructure supporting them. The companies have also agreed to jointly develop multiple GW-scale data center campuses across the United States. This collaborative approach will enable the rapid development of the land, load interconnection and supporting generation and capacity resources needed to deliver continued data center growth. The companies are currently developing the first three campuses and are collaborating to identify additional locations and expansion plans.