NEWS: Google is buying all the (initial) juice from the country’s biggest solar-plus-storage project of its kind.

The gigawatts: The tech giant has signed a virtual PPA for the first 1.6-GW, 2-GWh phases of the Steel River Energy Center in Arkansas. How it works: These clean electrons will travel directly to the local grid, rather than to a Google facility. The project is slated for completion in 2029, when it will offer 2.5 GW of solar capacity and 2.9 GWh of storage capacity—enough to power over 315K homes per year. 

The PR angle: This announcement comes weeks after Google reported that its supply chain carbon emissions shot up 25% year-over-year. And in April, news broke that Google is planning to co-locate a Texas data center campus with a 933-MW gas plant that could emit more carbon dioxide than the city of San Francisco. But it’s not the only hyperscaler increasingly hyping up gas to fuel the data center buildout.