TotalEnergies has signed a 21-year power supply agreement with Google to deliver 1 terawatt hour of certified renewable electricity to support the tech giant’s planned data centres in Malaysia. The energy will come from the new Citra Energies solar plant in Kedah, which is scheduled to begin construction in early 2026 and will provide around 20 MW of capacity dedicated to the deal.
The contract is expected to take effect in the first quarter after the plant comes online, giving Google a long-term, price-stable source of clean power as it builds out AI and cloud infrastructure in Southeast Asia. For TotalEnergies, the agreement reinforces its strategy of using utility-scale solar assets and virtual PPAs to serve hyperscale digital customers looking to decarbonise fast-growing workloads.
Part of a Growing Global Partnership
This Malaysia agreement builds on a separate 15-year PPA signed in November under which TotalEnergies will supply around 1.5 TWh of renewable electricity from its Montpelier solar farm in Ohio to power Google’s US data centres. Together, the two contracts illustrate how Big Tech and energy majors are locking into multi-decade partnerships to secure clean capacity in multiple regions.
As AI and cloud demand surge, data centres are consuming power at levels that can rival small cities, often outpacing the expansion plans of local utilities. Long-term PPAs like these give operators a way to underwrite new generation capacity while aligning with corporate carbon-free energy targets, and they give utilities and regulators clearer visibility on the load and investment profile associated with AI-driven digital infrastructure.
Signals for CXOs and Infrastructure Planners
For CXO audiences, the TotalEnergies–Google tie-up is another signal that AI-era infrastructure strategy is now inseparable from energy strategy. Hyperscalers are effectively becoming anchor customers for new renewable projects, while governments use schemes such as Malaysia’s Corporate Green Power Programme to attract climate-aligned digital investments.
Enterprises building or colocating in data centres will increasingly need to ask not just about latency and redundancy, but about the underlying power mix, grid constraints and the provider’s ability to lock in long-term clean energy. As AI build-outs accelerate, those who secure credible, verifiable clean power arrangements early will have a structural advantage—in both cost and ESG differentiation.
