Google has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with European renewable developer Eneco for 54MW of wind power in Belgium.

The power will be provided from three wind farms in the region. According to Google, the PPA will support the development of new onshore wind farms in the region. The exact projects tied to the PPA were not disclosed.

Eneco is involved in several North Sea wind projects, including the Hollandse Kust Noord project, and the in-development Ecowende projects in the Dutch North Sea. DCD has reached out to the company for clarification on which wind farms would be supplying Google energy under the PPA.

The search and cloud giant signed a ten-year agreement with Eneco in 2014 to power its Eemshaven data center, located in the Eemshaven port in Groningen Province, which Google opened back in 2016. According to reports at the time, the data center was expected to be run exclusively on renewable energy. The project cost an estimated €600 million ($696m) to construct.

In 2023, the company signed a ten-year deal with Eneco in the Netherlands to procure 153MW from a number of new near-shore wind farms.

Google has also signed several other PPAs in the region over recent years. In 2023, it signed a deal with Luminus to procure 23.8MW from four onshore wind projects over a 12-year tenor.

The most recent PPA was part of a €5bn ($5.8bn) investment announced by Google into its Belgian operations over the next two years to expand its cloud and AI infrastructure. The deal includes expansions of its data center campuses in Saint-Ghislain and is expected to add 300 full-time jobs in the region.

Google first established its data center campus in Belgium in 2009, home to the company's europe-west1 region.

The company is also in the process of building out a campus in Farciennes, in the province of Hainaut, breaking ground in April 2024. Official plans for that campus were first announced in July 2023.

The Saint-Ghislain campus was Google's first in Europe, and the company has since expanded it. As of April 2024, it had five data centers on the 90-hectare site, as well as a solar plant.

“Our commitment goes beyond infrastructure. We're also equipping Belgians with the skills needed to thrive in an AI-driven economy, at no cost, and will fund non-profits to provide free, practical AI training for low-skilled workers,” Google's statement said.