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Microsoft Signs Biggest Wind Power Deal for Wyoming Data Center

Renewable Energy World: Microsoft Corp. committed to its largest wind power purchase to date with a deal to buy 237 MW of capacity from projects in Wyoming and Kansas.

Allianz Risk Transfer AG’s Bloom Wind Project in Kansas and Black Hills Corp.’s Happy Jack and Silver Sage wind farms in Wyoming will provide all of the power needed by a data center in Cheyenne, Wyo., under two long-term contracts, according a Microsoft blog post Monday. Terms weren’t disclosed.

Under a new arrangement with Black Hills’s utility in Wyoming, backup generators at the data center will be available as a secondary resource to provide power to the local grid when needed. That means the utility can avoid building a new power plant.

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