Our largest solar and battery storage project ever

Source: Google Date: 2026-07-14 URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/infrastructure-and-cloud/global-network/steel-river-arkansas/

Summary

Google and Cypress Creek Energy are building the Steel River Energy Center in Mississippi County, Arkansas — Google’s largest solar-plus-battery project to date. Three phases deliver 2.5 GWdc solar and 2.9 GWh battery storage, full capacity by 2029, sized to power 315,000+ homes and feed Google’s regional data center demand; Google is anchor investor and offtaker.

Implications

Low-signal infrastructure/PR post, not an agentic-engineering or product signal. One line for vendor power dynamics: another data point in hyperscalers securing dedicated, storage-backed power generation ahead of data center buildout — the compute race is increasingly bottlenecked on power procurement, not chips.