Using that as a benchmark, Amazon’s new wind farm will be capable of powering the equivalent of around 90,000 homes each year.
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E-commerce giant Amazon.com said today that it is opening up a new, 253-megawatt wind farm in Scurry County, called “Amazon Wind Farm Texas”, to power its data centers.
On its website, Amazon says that AWS “has a long-term commitment to achieve 100 percent renewable energy usage for our global infrastructure footprint”.
A press release from Amazon says the “Amazon Wind Farm Texas”, will generate 1,000,000 megawatt hours of wind energy annually – enough energy to power nearly 90,000 homes.
Before it’s here, it’s on the Bloomberg Terminal. The five projects together will generate more than 2.6 million MWh of renewable energy each year, enough to power more than 240,000 USA homes.
“We applaud Amazon’s leadership in directly purchasing renewable power”, said Declan Flanagan, founder and CEO of Lincoln Clean Energy.
A number of tech companies have committed funding to renewable energy projects, including Facebook which is now in the process of building a new data center in Ireland that will be powered entirely by wind, while Apple investing in solar farms, Microsoft is investing in wind, and Google too is following a similar path.
The move is part of Amazon’s long-term goal to draw all the electricity that powers its hungry data centers from renewable sources. They are scheduled to start delivering energy to the grid by late 2017, and will generate 1,000,000 megawatt hours of wind energy annually. This is a system the company will build in Seattle to heat their office buildings with recycled energy. For more information on Amazon’s sustainability initiatives, visit www.amazon.com/sustainability.
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Lincoln Clean Energy (LCE) is a leading developer of US wind and solar projects with offices in Chicago, IL and Austin, TX.
