Amazon Web Services To Construct Wind Energy Farm In Ohio

[RiverLover]

Amazon Web Services is collaborating with EDP Renewables to construct a 100 Mega watt wind farm to provide clean energy to the company’s data centers




The wind farm, by the name Amazon Wind Farm Central would reportedly have the capacity to produce around 320,000 megawatts per hour by the next two years.

This is enough to provide electricity to 29,000 households in the United States on an annual basis. Amazon Web Services would use the electric output to operate both its existing and future data centers. The moves comes as part of the company’s long term plan of making all its AWS operations ecofriendly with 100% renewable energy usage for its global infrastructure.

Earlier this year, the e-commerce giant revealed that around a quarter of energy used by its cloud wing was from environment-friendly sources, and management aims to increase this by 40% by the first half of next year.

The company also announced both wind and solar power purchase agreements at the start of the year in North Carolina, Indiana and Virginia. In addition to this, the leading cloud provider has also signed up for a pilot project with Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA), under which the former would employ the latter’s battery technology for energy storage at its data centers.....

http://www.bidnessetc.com/57912-amazon-web-services-to-construct-wind-energy-farm-in-ohio/

[elfin]

1. Are they building their own private grid as well?

See they are coordinating with tesla for storage, but don't understand how they will deliv r the stored energy to their business.

[RiverLover]

2. It sounds like they're using existing grids.

...Along with the new Amazon Wind Farm US Central, Amazon said its renewable projects will deliver more than 1.6 million MWh of renewable energy into electric grids across the central and eastern U.S., or roughly the equivalent amount of energy required to power 150,000 homes.....

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3007188/sustainable-it/amazon-to-build-massive-wind-farm-to-power-web-services.html

[GliderGuider]

3. "megawatts per hour"

[Crystalite]

4. Well, under perfect conditions you would only need (breaks out calculator)...

64,000 of these!



I share your

[Crystalite]

5. I'm always encouraged to see big firms invest in renewables.

Walmart, Tesla, Amazon, FedEx...

It should be a signal to all businesses and citizens that it's money well spent.

Thanks, RiverLover!