AMAZON ORDERS MORE WIND

Amazon plans wind farm in Ohio to help power data centers

January 10, 2016 (San Francisco Chronicle)

“Amazon plans to develop a windfarm in northwest Ohio to help power a $1 billion project to build three data centers near Columbus for its web services subsidiary…[The 48 wind turbines] will generate up to 100 megawatts of electricity…[E]conomic development officials estimated that the wind farm would cost [the e-commerce retail giant] between $175 million and $200 million. Amazon hasn't set a start date for construction, but is pushing to have the site running by May 2017…[The wind farm would power three data centers will] provide cloud storage, database and analytic services through Amazon Web Services…[This] will be Amazon Web Services' third wind farm. The company has put a high emphasis on using electricity from renewable sources for its services…The company expects to surpass a goal of using 40 percent renewable energy globally by the end of the year…” click here for more

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