The pair expect their first commercial product to appear in the Google Cloud Marketplace by mid-2026, with a focus on AI-enhanced field operations, including predicting equipment issues and improving crew scheduling, as well as tools to help make the electric grid more reliable through improved forecasting and system modelling.

The first three sites are already in progress, with additional locations planned, the technology giant revealed.

Meanwhile, the move is designed to speed up development of land, power connections and energy resources needed for continued data centre growth.

Additionally, the pair plans to strengthen their technology and AI developments to speed up commercialisation, aiming to help modernise the energy sector and accelerate the buildout of both data centres and the power systems that support them.

NextEra Energy chairman and CEO, John Ketchum, said: “Our partnership with Google exemplifies this very singular moment when energy and technology are becoming inextricably intertwined.

“Together, we intend to build data centre capacity and energy infrastructure at scale, advance cutting-edge technology and reimagine how energy companies operate. By combining NextEra Energy’s unmatched skills as America’s leading energy infrastructure builder and operator, with Google’s world-class technology expertise, we will help transform the energy sector.”

Google Cloud CEO, Thomas Kurian, continued: “Working with NextEra Energy to power our infrastructure growth further strengthens our long-standing collaboration and will help us meet increasing demand from our customers as they deploy AI technologies at scale.

“By infusing NextEra Energy’s deep domain expertise with Google Cloud’s AI infrastructure, platform and models, we can together support the digital future of energy infrastructure.” 

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