NextEra Energy is working with Exxon Mobil to build a natural gas-powered data centre for a big tech customer, it said as it mints deals with Meta and Google.
NextEra said today that it had reached around 2.5 gigawatts in clean energy contracts with Meta, and will develop three new data centre campuses with Google Cloud. Its oil-powered data centre will be pitched to hyperscalers, the companies training artificial intelligence models with large data centres.
The project “combines Exxon’s carbon capture and sequestration expertise with [NextEra subsidiary] Energy Resources’ development expertise to pursue construction on an initial 1.2-GW plant,” NextEra CEO John Ketchum said in a presentation to investors.
“As one of America's largest energy infrastructure builders, NextEra Energy Resources is powering America's technology growth with new energy infrastructure,” said NextEra Energy Resources CEO Brian Bolster. “The company has actively engaged with hyperscalers to support their data centre operations and further drive America's leadership.”
The data centre would be marketed to a potential hyperscaler customer in the first quarter of 2026.
The companies have secured 2,500 acres of buildable land for the facility. It would be near Exxon’s Denbury carbon dioxide pipeline, which runs through Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
NextEra aims to build at least 15 GW of power generation for data centres by 2035, Ketchum also told investors.
While NextEra’s Energy Resources subsidiary is the U.S.’ largest renewable energy developer, the company will also use natural gas and nuclear power to support its data centres. It partnered with Google to restart Iowa’s Duane Arnold nuclear power plant in October.
NextEra Energy’s (NYSE: NEE) shares closed at US$80.55, down from a previous close at $83.13. Its market capitalisation is $167.75 billion.
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