Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced it will build and operate a 100-megawatt (MW) wind farm in the US that will power its current and future cloud service data centres.
The project, called the Amazon Wind Farm US Central, is expected to generate about 320,000 megawatt hours (MWh) of wind power per year beginning in May 2017.
Wind-powered energy, the second-largest category of renewable electricity generation, is expected to grow on average by 2.4% every year to become the largest power contributor by 2038.
Amazon has launched a number of wind farm projects and other renewable energy initiatives over the past two years as it moves toward a goal of 100% renewable energy use.
In January 2015, Amazon announced a renewable project with the Amazon Wind Farm (Fowler Ridge) in Indiana, US, which is expected to generate 500,000MWh of wind power annually.
Also this year, Amazon unveiled a pilot of Tesla’s energy storage batteries that are designed to help bridge the gap between intermittent production, from sources like wind, and a data centre’s constant power demand.
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