Rattlesnake Creek wind farm began construction in Dixon County, Nebraska that will fully power Facebook data center in Papillion

Briefing

November 15, 2017

Briefing	Rattlesnake Creek wind farm – $430 million wind farm farm began contruction in Dixon County, Nebraska that will fully power operations of Facebook data center in region Purchase Agreement – Out of 320 MW capacity of wind farm, Facebook will buy 200 MW to fully operate data center Organizations Involved – Enel SpA, Europe’s biggest utility by market value, owns wind farm site Expected Outcome – Facebook aims to be one step closer to powering all operations with clean and renewable energy
Accelerator	Clean Energy Generation, Distribution and Management
Sector	Cross-sector
Organization	Enel SpA, Facebook Inc.
Source	Albanese, C. and Eckhouse, B., "Enel building wind farm to power Facebook Nebraska data site", Bloomberg, https://www.bloomberg.com/; Frangoul, A., "Facebook data center to be powered by $430 million wind farm in Nebraska", CNBC, http://www.cnbc.com/; AcceleratingBiz analysis
Original Publication Date	November 14, 2017

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