Amazon wants AWS wants to be the greenest cloud around.
Amazon has revealed a significant investment in renewable energy projects around the world as it looks to make AWS the greenest cloud option for customers. At its AWS re:Invent 2021 conference in Las Vegas, the company announced 18 new utility-scale wind and solar energy projects across the US, Finland, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK. The news, which makes Amazon the largest corporate buyer of renewable energy in the world, means AWS’s renewable energy capacity will now total more than 12 GW and 33,700 gigawatt hours (GWh) when the current projects are fully realized — enough to power more than three million US homes for a year.
