Gamesa will deliver, transport, supervise the construction, provide technical guidance and commission the machines at the wind farm in Perquimans and Pasquotank counties.
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Called the Amazon Wind Farm U.S. East, it is expected to come online in December 2016.
In this regard, AWS announced its plan to construct a wind farm in North Carolina to produce electricity for the power grid for supply to its data centers. The sprawling 34-square-mile wind farm will start with 104 turbine spires rising from the state’s eastern flatlands.
The clean energy generated at the wind farm will power the electrical grid that supplies both current and future AWS Cloud data centers.
The global e-commerce giant will purchase power from a 208-megawatt wind farm being developed by Iberdrola in North Carolina. It will generate approximately 670,000 megawatt hours of wind energy a year. “A wind farm of this scale and complexity wouldn’t be possible without Gov. McCrory’s leadership, community support, and an exciting collaboration with Amazon Web Services”.
Amazon in the past few years has put up with criticism – particularly from Greenpeace – about the energy use of its public cloud, and to that end, in November AWS committed to running completely on renewable energy.
Apple Inc. previous year advanced its renewable energy footprint in tech-heavy North Carolina, pioneered by a solar-powered data center in 2013.
For those who are interested in the cloud, renewable energy, and Greenpeace’s attacks, AWS vice president and distinguished engineer James Hamilton’s recent blog post about those subjects is worth a read. Amazon now generates more than $5 billion in revenue annually, and its energy decisions count for a lot, as a result.
By Joe QuirkeAmazon Web Services (AWS), a branch of the online retailer that focuses on cloud computing, is to use wind energy to power its data centres.
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In April 2015, Amazon also announced a pilot to test Tesla energy storage batteries to help store energy from their wind farms. More than a million customers, including fast-growing startups, large enterprises, and government agencies across 190 countries, rely on AWS services to innovate quickly, lower IT costs and scale applications globally.
