Google covering costs for data center, as consumers pay for ‘part of it’: Entergy– www.washingtonexaminer.com
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Google has committed to covering the costs to build a new solar and battery facility that will generate energy for one of its new data centers in Arkansas, though regular consumers are also footing the bill for part of the power plant’s construction.
The new data center in West Memphis, Arkansas, is set to be powered by a massive solar and battery facility called the Steel River Energy Center, commonly known as Cypress Solar. And according to Entergy, the utility responsible for building, owning, and operating the power plant, Google is paying the full cost for that power.
The tech giant’s financial commitments were called into question this summer, after the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette claimed it had obtained documents which said Google would only pay for a third of the cost needed to construct Cypress Solar.
In an interview with the Washington Examiner, Entergy CEO Drew Marsh insisted that those estimates were incorrect.
“They’re paying the full amount,” Marsh said of Google. “There was some unfortunate math in there, but we got all that straightened out and corrected.”