Ron Burgundy Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 Online store Amazon said it has contracted Spanish utility Iberdrola to build and manage a wind farm in North Carolina, United States, to power its current and future cloud data centers. Amazon affiliate Amazon Web Services (AWS) said on Monday the wind farm would be operational by December of next year, putting it on track to surpass a goal for 40 percent its electrical grids to be powered by renewable energy by end-2016. The 208 megawatt farm, which adds to other recent Amazon renewable projects in Indiana and Virginia, is expected to generate approximately 670,000 megawatt hours of wind energy a year, enough to power more than 61,000 U.S. homes, it said. View the full article Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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