Amazon to build massive wind farm to power web services
Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Thursday announced it will build and operate a 100-megawatt (MW) wind farm in Ohio that will power its current and future cloud service data centers.
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; that's enough electricity to power more than 29,000 U.S. homes a year.
While AWS's latest wind farm is dwarfed by previously announced projects, it is still large
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