Amazon plans to open five new solar parks to help make their cloud data centers AWS.
The last five facilities will be located in Virginia and provide electricity to the regional cloud centers in the eastern United States in Virginia and Ohio.
Amazon said the new signals will be installed in the counties of New Kent, Buckingham, Sussex, Southampton and Powhatan. Southampton plant will aim to produce 100 MW of power, while the other four have a lower capacity of 20MW.
The new plants will join the 80MW farm in Accomack County to provide electricity to Virginia firm Amazon AWS. In total, Amazon said it now has 10 solar parks under construction in power plants in Virginia and Ohio that host regional AWS forums in the United States.
"We continue to make progress in our efforts for sustainable development in areas where the availability of renewable energy sources is low or proposed projects are blocked and where the contribution of energy occurs in the actual data of the electricity grid AWS Centers, "said Peter DeSantis,
Amazon says that by the end of 2017 should have more than half of all cloud computing facilities provided by renewable energy sources.
AWS and other cloud vendors underwent a review of the energy sources used for its cloud computing facilities. Due to the requirements of nature and large data centers the most remote power of cloud computing, the installation of these facilities in renewable energy sources and on coal-fired power plants has become an environmental problem. Their cloud computing strategies.
The AWS announcement comes amid speculation that renewable energy projects could take a back seat to increase production of fossil fuels in the arrival of the Trump Presidential Administration.
Although the facility will be located a few hours from Washington DC, it probably will not provide much government work in the cloud. The Government Cloud Service Amazon is on computer servers in a northwest Pacific center.
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