Google Commits to 21-Year Renewable Power Deal with TotalEnergies for Malaysian Data Centres

Google has entered into a long-term clean energy agreement with TotalEnergies that will supply renewable electricity to support the company’s growing data centre footprint in Malaysia. The 21-year power purchase agreement reflects Google’s continued push to align data centre expansion in emerging markets with its carbon-free energy ambitions. The agreement will deliver a total of 1 terawatt-hour of certified renewable electricity over the contract period, reinforcing Malaysia’s role in Google’s Asia Pacific infrastructure strategy.

 

Under the agreement, TotalEnergies will provide Google with renewable electricity generated from the Citra Energies solar project in Kedah, located in northern Malaysia. The solar plant is being developed as part of Malaysia’s Corporate Green Power Programme, a government-led initiative designed to allow companies to procure renewable electricity through virtual power purchase agreements while adding new clean generation capacity to the national grid. TotalEnergies secured the project in August 2023 in partnership with local developer MK Land. By linking the PPA directly to a new solar facility, the agreement supports both Google’s sustainability targets and Malaysia’s broader efforts to accelerate renewable energy deployment without relying solely on public sector investment.

 

The Malaysian agreement builds on an expanding clean energy relationship between Google and TotalEnergies across multiple regions. Just months earlier, the two companies signed a 15-year power purchase agreement in the United States covering 1.5 terawatt-hours of electricity from a solar facility in Ohio, supplying Google’s data centres in that market. Together, the deals highlight a strategy focused on pairing long-term infrastructure demand from hyperscale data centres with stable renewable energy supply across both mature and emerging electricity markets. Sophie Chevalier, Senior Vice President for Flexible Power and Integration at TotalEnergies, said the agreement demonstrates the company’s ability to tailor power solutions for global technology firms operating across diverse regulatory and market environments. She emphasized that TotalEnergies is increasingly supporting large digital infrastructure players not only in Europe and North America, but also in fast-growing economies such as Malaysia.

 

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Google’s data centres are among the most energy-intensive assets in the digital economy, with electricity demand continuing to rise alongside cloud computing and artificial intelligence workloads. To manage this growth, Google has set a goal to operate its entire business on carbon-free energy on a 24-hour basis by 2030, matching electricity consumption with clean energy supply every hour in every region where it operates. The company has also committed to achieving net zero emissions across its operations and value chain by the end of the decade. Since 2010, Google has signed more than 170 clean energy agreements representing over 22 gigawatts of renewable capacity worldwide. Despite rising power consumption, Google recently reported a 12 percent reduction in data centre carbon emissions in 2024, underscoring the role of long-term renewable contracts in decoupling digital growth from emissions growth.

 

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For Malaysia, the agreement signals growing confidence from global technology companies in the country’s clean energy framework. By enabling new solar capacity through the Corporate Green Power Programme, the PPA supports grid diversification while contributing to local economic development and energy system resilience. Giorgio Fortunato, Head of Clean Energy and Power for Asia Pacific at Google, said the agreement aligns with the company’s approach of investing in energy systems that benefit both its operations and host economies. He noted that adding new clean capacity helps strengthen the electricity networks that support Google’s infrastructure while contributing to broader sustainability goals.

 

As data centre investment accelerates across Southeast Asia, long-duration power purchase agreements like this one are becoming central to how clean energy markets scale. They provide developers with revenue certainty, governments with additional renewable capacity, and corporate buyers with long-term price stability and emissions reductions. Google’s 21-year commitment in Malaysia illustrates how hyperscalers are increasingly shaping renewable energy deployment in emerging markets. For energy developers and policymakers alike, such agreements highlight the growing role of private capital and long-term demand in financing the next phase of global clean power infrastructure.

 

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