France’s Voltalia is looking to partner with ByteDance and Brookfield for a data center venture in Brazil, according to a report by Bloomberg.

Sources say that the renewable energy company wants to secure agreements with data center operators and investors based on projects in its pipeline. The data centers are set to be located at the Pecem Industrial and Port Complex, located in the northeastern province of Ceara.

Most of Voltalia’s total operational capacity is located in the Latin American country. Of the 2.5GW in capacity it operates around the world, 1.5GW of this is in Brazil, and just last year, the company signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the state of Ceará to develop a €3 billion ($3.5bn) hydrogen and ammonia project at Pecem.

But the oversupply of energy, particularly in the northeastern region, has led the Brazilian government to pursue a policy of curtailment, forcing producers like Voltalia to cut down on generation.

Data centers have since become appealing to renewable energy providers looking to offload their excess capacity.

The report states that the data center could eventually reach up to around 1GW. Voltalia is supposedly waiting on the approval of a tax break before finalizing any agreements, and the company is reported to have contacted Alphabet and Meta as potential partners.

It is unclear whether this data center will be the same as the one already set to be constructed by ByteDance for its subsidiary, TikTok. Regulatory approval for the 50 billion reais ($8.7bn) facility was granted in June, and Brazil’s energy minister said in October that construction would begin in six months.

Earlier this year, reports emerged that the Chinese social media giant was in talks to get energy from rival producer Casa dos Ventos, but a spokesperson for the latter has since told Bloomberg that nothing had been finalized.

Both the Pecem complex and the ByteDance data center have been subject to criticism. In September, local environmental groups and the Anace indigenous community sued to halt the construction of the facility on the basis of environmental, procedural, and constitutional grounds.