Energy parks can provide grid services, but they face regulatory challenges, including uncertainty around the rules for co-located load, according to Energy Innovation.

The partnership seeks to enhance infrastructure deployment speed, reduce grid burden and improve energy reliability and affordability.

Intersect Power will build the clean energy infrastructure, and Google will anchor these projects as the primary user, ensuring new data centers come online with their own

Alphabet Inc.’s Google is investing in mega energy parks that will generate renewable power as the company races to fuel its data centers.

Google has announced a "first-of-its-kind partnership" with Intersect Power and TPG Rise Climate to build data centers powered by on-site renewable energy. The $20 billion project will see the establishment of multiple "industrial parks" across the US within this decade.

Google's capital investment in Intersect Power comes as the tech giant, like other "hyperscalers" including Microsoft and Meta, races to bolster its domestic data center capacity to meet the AI-driven surge in cloud demand.