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Amazon cloud increasingly powered by hot air

150 megawatt wind farm comes online in Indiana

Amazon Web Services' aspiration to power its clouds with not much more than hot air are closer to fruition, after the company flicked the switch on its first wind farm.

The 150 megawatt facility on Fowler Ridge in Benton County, Indiana starting pumping out electrons on the first of January when it made over “1.1 million kilowatt-hours of renewable electricity.”

That juice feeds into the local grid, which in turn nourishes AWS bit barns in Virginia and an upcoming region in Ohio.

Amazon's also working on another two wind farms and a solar farm, all due to come online by May 2017 when the company expects that over 40 per cent of electricity its bit barns consume will come from renewable sources. ®

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