What happened: AES Indiana is working with Google to serve the tech giant’s planned data center near Indianapolis. Google will foot 100% of the bill for the needed infrastructure and generation to serve it, with “no cost shifting to existing customers.”
The details: The utility claims the data center will spur $1.3B in new energy infrastructure investment, and plans on acquiring 460 MW of storage and 130 MW of solar for the project. Once it’s all built, Google said it will pay a minimum 80% of its contracted demand (even if it ends up using less).
The reaction: Residents have voiced concerns, including the possibility of cost overruns impacting ratepayers (and AES harnessing eminent domain to build new transmission that will serve the data center).
Mon, Oct 12
Carrie Klein
Energy Central Team
NEWS: Regulators have approved AES Indiana’s plan to serve a Google data center. The utility claims it could bring nearly $800M in customer savings over 15 years.
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