Microsoft has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Brookfield Asset Management, to ensure that renewable energy powers its data centers in the US and Europe, possibly elsewhere too, in a deal spanning 2026-2030. The agreement states that the energy types involved will go beyond just wind and solar, but does not specify further. Our sister service, Rethink Energy, dived into the news. This 10.5 GW PPA figure is more than just the latest record which any sector with a 20% annual growth rate posts as a matter of routine. It is some 8x the previous biggest-ever PPA, according to Bloomberg’s BNEF tracking. It is bigger than all of the PPAs that Microsoft announced across 16 countries last year combined…