Record-breaking Scottish wind farm to help power AWS and Amazon towards 2025 renewable goal
Nine new renewable projects announced today will feed AWS' datacentres with clean energy
Amazon claimed it has become Europe's largest corporate buyer of renewable energy as it announced a raft of new wind and solar energy projects that will help feed its AWS datacentres with clean energy.
The nine new "utility-scale" projects include a 350 MW wind farm off the coast of Scotland (hailed by AWS UK general manager Darren Hardman - see below), which it claims is the UK's largest corporate renewable energy project, as well as a Spanish solar project and Swedish onshore wind project.
Amazon claims it now has 206 renewable energy projects globally - including 71 utility-scale wind and solar projects and 135 solar rooftops on facilities and stores worldwide - which will generate 8.5 GW of electricity production capacity globally.
The projects will supply renewable energy to AWS' datacentres, as well as Amazon's corporate offices, fulfilment centres and Whole Foods Market stores.
The announcement follows a move from rival public cloud giant Google to reveal the carbon emissions of each of its global datacentre regions.
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Amazon claims it is on course to power 100 per cent of its activities with renewable energy by 2025 as part of its commitment to becoming net zero carbon by 2040. Other goals that feed into this include a pledge to make all shipments net-zero carbon, purchasing 100,000 electric delivery vehicles and investing $2bn in the development of decarbonising services and solutions.
"Amazon continues to scale up its investments in renewable energy as part of its effort to meet The Climate Pledge, our commitment to be net-zero carbon by 2040," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO.
"With these nine new wind and solar projects, we have announced 206 renewable wind and solar projects worldwide, and we are now the largest corporate buyer of renewable energy in Europe and globally. Many parts of our business are already operating on renewable energy, and we expect to power all of Amazon with renewable energy by 2025—five years ahead of our original target of 2030."