Dive Summary:

• Google announced Wednesday that it has signed a deal with Oklahoma’s Grand River Dam Authority (GRDA) to buy 48 megawatts (MW) of wind energy to help power a data center.
• The Canadian Hills Wind Project will generate the electricity and Google will pay a premium for its use to GRDA.
• This is not the first such initiative Google has been involved with; the company has already committed to buy more than 260 MW of renewable energy overall.

From the article:

Google said Wednesday that it has signed a first-of-its-kind deal with an Oklahoma utility to buy 48 megawatts of wind energy to help power its data center in that state.

In years past, the search giant has signed power purchase agreements with wind developers to buy the electricity generated by their projects. Google has invested directly in renewable energy projects, such as the 370-megawatt Ivanpah solar thermal power plant now under construction in California. ...