AWS goes green (finally!)

After years of lobbying, Amazon are beginning to take their environmental responsibilities seriously by building a 150 megawatt wind farm to power both current and future AWS datacenters in the United States.

Hopefully they will then swiftly apply the same blueprint across the rest of the globe to support their regional datacenters.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-web-services-wind-farm-fowler-ridge/

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2 comments on “AWS goes green (finally!)
  1. […] It could also be a move to further reduce the power consumption for its datacentres now that green computing seems to be on their agenda (read more at https://cloudninjablog.wordpress.com/2015/01/21/aws-goes-green-finally/). […]

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  2. […] It could also be a move to further reduce the power consumption for its datacentres now that green computing seems to be on their agenda (read more at https://cloudninjablog.wordpress.com/2015/01/21/aws-goes-green-finally/). […]

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