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

To meet rising demand for reliable, clean data center power, Google is joining with clean energy company Intersect Power and global impact investing platform and private

Energy Vault and RackScale Data Centers aim to accelerate the delivery of 2 gigawatts of firm, primary power via the B-Nest system…. The USDA is investing $6.3 billion across more than 200 projects in 44 states to strengthen electric infrastructure in rural America. …

Under the partnership's terms, Intersect Power will construct clean energy assets, with Google as the offtaker via new data center campuses and as an anchor tenant in colocated industrial parks. Google plans to deliver gigawatts of new data center capacity across the US as part of the partnership.

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

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