Google has signed several Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) to procure wind energy in Belgium.

Engie this week announced it has signed five PPAs with the search giant, totaling more than 118MW.

Google will offtake the entire output of four new onshore wind farms developed by Engie in Belgium with a total capacity of 26MW. Google will procure another 92MW from a Belgian wind farm in operation for eight years.

Vincent Verbeke, CEO of Engie Belgium, said: “We are pleased to partner with leading tech companies, and in particular Google, as most players in the sector significantly step up their infrastructure development and strengthen their decarbonized energy purchasing programs. As the leading developer of clean energy cPPAs, we are proud to contribute to the economic feasibility of new investments for renewable energy projects while supporting the operations and investments of energy-intensive industries, and promoting their local anchoring.”

Frédéric Descamps, head of data centers at Google in Belgium, added: “Sustainability has been at the heart of Google’s values ​​since its inception. We aim to have a positive impact on all the networks where we operate by working closely with leading energy companies such as Engie, a long-standing partner of Google in Belgium that shares the same commitments to our sustainability goals.”

Google has had a data center presence in Belgium since 2009, when it broke ground on a 90-hectare site in Saint-Ghislain that was its first campus in Europe. This year saw the company start work on its second Belgian data center campus, located in Farciennes, in the province of Hainaut. Land for a third campus, in Ecaussinnes in Hainaut province, has also been acquired. The company operates a cloud region from Belgium.

Google and Engie have previously signed energy deals in the UK and Germany. The energy firm is also a Google Cloud customer.

Engie has previously signed PPAs with Iliad, Amazon, Microsoft, Orange, Digital Realty, Scala, and others.

So far in 2024, Google has signed Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) in the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Poland, Japan, Nevada, and Arizona. The company has also announced investments into carbon capture and put out an RFP for innovative energy generation technologies. It recently acquired a stake in a Taiwanese solar firm.

24/7 PPAs ensure that any clean energy paid for is matched by metered electricity used by a large consumer; Google is moving to 24/7 PPAs.