HP has announced that it has signed a 12-year power purchase agreement (PPA) for 112MW of wind power with SunEdison. The 112 MW of locally generated wind electricity is sufficient to power 100 per cent of HP's Texas-based data center operations.
The approximately 1.5 million square feet of Texas data center operations support HP's entire internal global information technology (IT) requirements and the delivery of IT services to a portion of HP customers. HP currently operates five data centers in Texas, located in Houston, Hockley, Plano, and two in Austin. This is the first utility-scale renewable energy purchase by HP. HP's commitment to purchase this power has enabled SunEdison to begin construction on the South Plains II wind farm in Texas, which when completed will generate 300MW of power.
