- The solar-powered data centre will be delivered through a contract with Ørsted.
- Meta will also receive a 50MW allocation from the West Line and Brittlebush Solar Facility.
Meta has announced its Mesa data centre will soon be powered by new solar energy from Salt River Project (SRP) through a contract with leading United States clean energy provider Ørsted. Under the agreement, Meta will receive most of the solar energy generated by Ørsted’s Eleven Mile Solar Centre. The Ørsted’s Eleven Mile Solar Centre is a 300MW solar farm and 300MW four-hour battery energy storage system. The solar centre is currently under construction in Pinal County, Arizona and will be operational in 2024.
Once it comes online in 2024, it will be the largest solar-plus-battery project on SRP’s power grid and one of the largest battery energy storage systems built in a single phase in the U.S. The stored energy not utilised by the Meta data centre will be available to SRP’s customer base.
In addition, Meta will also receive an allocation of 50MW from the 100MW West Line Solar Facility, which will open next year in Eloy. Furthermore, the firm will soon receive a portion of solar energy from the 200MW Brittlebush Solar Facility in Coolidge, which will be online in 2024. These projects will enable Meta to reach its 100 per cent renewable energy and net zero goals.