‘Green’ Google in Talks to Back Massive African Wind Project

Google gets lots of attention for expanding into novel technologies like driverless cars and artificial intelligence. But the technology giant also has put big bucks—more than $2 billion to date—into the next generation of energy production.

Now, the company is in discussions to back the largest wind power project in Africa, a fast-growing but power-starved continent, according to people familiar with the situation.

The Lake Turkana Power Project, a more than $700 million, 40,000 acre undertaking in Kenya. It’s the largest private investment in the history of the East African country—where less than a quarter of the population has access to power—and the project’s 310 megawatt capacity is expected to boost Kenya’s installed energy capacity by 20 percent.

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This article originally appeared on Recode.net.