Google will invest $15 billion in Missouri infrastructure, including a new data center in New Florence, Montgomery County, in a project that pairs its expanding data center footprint with new generation commitments, a large-load cost-allocation framework, and Ameren Missouri rate structures designed to protect existing customers from infrastructure costs tied to large energy users. When [...]The post Google Pledges Power, Ratepayer Protections in $15B Missouri Data Center Expansion appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Google and Intersect, a clean energy developer Google acquired in March 2026, have launched construction on the Meitner Energy Center, a co-located data center and generation complex in the Texas Panhandle that will integrate more than 1 GW of wind, solar, and battery storage with on-site gas-fired generation for reliability firming. The project is located [...]The post Google Launches 1-GW-Plus Co-Located Data Center and Generation Complex in Texas Panhandle appeared first on POWER Magazine.

A growing group of data center operators-including Dallas-based Skybox Datacenters, Austin-headquartered bitcoin miner and hyperscale developer Mara, and global colocation giant Digital Realty-have publicly committed to comply with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's data center standards and the state's active audit of projects in the Texas grid operator's interconnection queue. They join QTS Data Centers, Blackstone's [...]The post More Data Center Operators Commit to Abbott's Texas Standards as Power Companies Endorse ERCOT Batch Framework appeared first on POWER Magazine.