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LCG, February 24, 2026--The AES Corporation (AES) and Google today announced agreements for clean power generation that will be co-located with a new Google data center in Wilbarger County, Texas. The agreements include a 20-year Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) for co-located power generation. These coordinated energy projects and powered land will enable Google to rapidly expand its operations to meet demand for core services, while AES will expand its power generation portfolio.
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LCG, February 23, 2026--Amazon today announced plans to invest $12 billion to develop and construct state-of-the-art data center campuses in northwest Louisiana that will support cloud computing technologies. Amazon is partnering with STACK Infrastructure, the developer and owner of the campuses, to lead the construction and development of the data center facilities. Amazon has already invested in solar energy projects in Louisiana, bringing up to 200 MW of new carbon-free energy onto the grid.
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Industry News
Calpine Begins Building Another California Plant;On its Way to Owning 12,000 In-state Megawatts
LCG, Aug. 24, 2001--Calpine Corp. said yesterday that is has begun construction on its 750 megawatt Pastoria Energy Center 30 miles south of Bakersfield, Calif. at the southern end of California's Central Valley.Calpine said the natural gas-fueled, combined-cycle facility will be complete by summer of 2003. As many as 800 workers will build the plant, which will have an operating staff of between 30 and 35 employees."Pastoria is the latest in a series of Calpine projects intended to provide near- and long-term solutions to the power crunch in the West," Jake Rudisill, a Calpine senior vice president. "We've achieved several milestones this summer and we are extremely pleased to be able to point to yet another."Calpine pointed to the commissioning in July of the Sutter Energy Center near Sacramento and the Los Medanos Energy Center as evidence that its projects are bearing fruit. Los Medanos is the first new major power plant built in the San Francisco Bay Area in more than 30 years.The company said it has 2,400 megawatts of generation on-line in California, 2.030 megawatts under construction and almost 3,300 megawatts under development. Calpine says it will have in operation 12,000 megawatts of generation in California.
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