When Google revealed it is the company behind a proposed data center project in West Memphis, the tech giant said it will also invest in Cypress Solar, a 600-megawatt solar power and 350-megawatt battery storage facility near Pine Bluff to be built by Entergy Arkansas Inc.

Google has invested in other solar farm projects in the United States, but it signed agreements to purchase power from them, and not to fund construction.

If built, Cypress Solar will support the significant power needs of the data center as part of its ongoing plan to have all of its data centers run on carbon-free energy by 2030.

Google’s investment in Arkansas is a part of a pattern of building data centers and investing in solar farm projects to help power them.

Details about how Google will invest in Cypress Solar have not been released.

In 2019, Google opened a $600 million data center in Papillion, Neb. Since then, it has built two more Nebraska data centers, in Lincoln and Omaha.

In 2024, Google partnered with Omaha Public Power District, a utility company, and NextEra Energy, an energy and utility holding company, to build Pierce County Energy Center.

The center is a 420-megawatt solar array and a 680-megawatt battery energy storage system. The facility is expected to be fully operational by 2027. The project has been approved by Nebraska state officials.

The center will be located in northeast Nebraska. The solar facility will provide support for Google’s data centers in the state.

NextEra is primarily funding the project, however Google signed a power purchase agreement to use electricity from the project to power its data centers.

Google said it has invested nearly $4.7 billion in the state.

The solar center will be owned and operated by a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources LLC. Omaha Public Power District will acquire the capacity of the project and a portion of the energy to meet system needs, according to a news release about the project.

In 2007, Google built a data center in Berkeley County, S.C., located in the lowcountry. That data center was one of the first centers Google built in the United States.

In 2024, the company broke ground on two additional data center campuses in Dorchester County, S.C.

The additional centers plus an expansion of the original center, totaled to a $3.3 billion investment in South Carolina.

In May, Google signed a deal to obtain renewable energy credits in South Carolina.

The deal allows Google to invest in and purchase renewable energy credits from EnergyRe, a renewable energy developer, with a portfolio of more than 600 megawatts of new solar and solar with storage projects being developed in South Carolina.

“Our collaboration with EnergyRe will help power our data centers and the broader economic growth of South Carolina,” Amanda Peterson Corio, head of data center energy at Google said in a news release.

One of the largest solar power projects in the U.S. opened in Texas in 2024. The Orion Solar Belt, includes three separate solar farms located next to each other in Buckholts, Texas.

The solar farm will provide 875 megawatts of electricity.

In Texas, Google has two data centers in Ellis County and the Dallas region. According to The Associated Press, Google will use about 85% of the solar farm’s power for those data centers.

The solar farm was built by SB Energy, a renewable energy project developer. Google purchased a long-term with SB Energy.

In August, Google announced that it would be investing an additional $9 billion in Oklahoma over the next two years to support and develop cloud and AI infrastructure. Part of the money will go towards expanding its data center in Pryor, and developing a new data center in Stillwater.

In January, the company announced that it entered into a long-term agreement with Leeward Renewable Energy, which owns and operates solar projects across the U.S., to support over 700 megawatts of solar projects in Oklahoma.

In the case of Cypress Solar, Entergy is looking to finance the project through the strategic investment rider process. This would allow a $2.02 or 1.51% per month rate increase for typical residential customers using 1,000 kilowatt hours per month to pay for the plant.