GE, Metlife Back Wind Farm That Will Offset Microsoft Data Center

摘要

General Electric Co.'s energy financing unit and MetLife Inc. agreed to invest in an Illinois wind farm that will produce electricity to offset the energy used by Microsoft Corp.'s Chicago data center. Microsoft agreed to buy the output from the 175-megawatt Pilot Hill project under a 20-year contract in its biggest wind deal to date, the companies said in a statement Dec. 1. Terms weren't disclosed.