Meta and Google turn to NextEra to feed insatiable datacenter power hunger

NextEra Energy on Monday tightened its grip on hyperscaler power demand, adding 2.5 GW of new renewable projects for Meta while deepening its partnership with Google, which already covers about 3.5 GW of capacity.

Taken together, Meta and Google now touch roughly 18 percent of the 33.4 GW of generating capacity in operation at NextEra Energy's subsidiary, NextEra Energy Resources, underscoring both the growing appetite for datacenter power and the consolidation of supply among hyperscale customers.

Publicly traded NextEra Energy is one of the country's largest power companies and has about 72 GW of net generation and storage capacity. It owns Florida Power & Light, which serves more than 6 million customer accounts, of which 91 percent either use natural gas or nuclear power to meet demand.

It also owns NextEra Energy Resources – its clean energy arm – which has 35 GW of capacity that is ...