Microsoft Snaps Up Huge Clean Power Deal for Irish Data Hub

  • It’s the second-biggest corporate PPA deal so far this year
  • Big tech has faced pressure to clean up energy consumption
Photographer: Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Bloomberg
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Microsoft Corp. agreed to buy a massive amount of clean energy to power a data center in Ireland, making it the second biggest corporate power-purchase agreement deal so far this year.

The technology giant has signed power-purchase agreements with renewable energy companies to provide it with 900 megawatts of wind and solar energy, according to a statement Wednesday. That trails Amazon.com Inc’s 3.5 gigawatt deal in April.