Meta turns to solar — again — in its data center-building boom

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Meta recently signed a deal with Spanish renewable developer Zelestra for 595 megawatts of solar power in Texas, just two weeks after signing a separate solar deal with utility company Engie. Meta and others are deploying enormous sums of capital to build data centers, which need correspondingly large amounts of power. Natural gas power plants are slightly faster.

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