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Renewables notch another win as Amazon signed contracts to buy 476 megawatts of winding and solar on the Iberian Peninsula .
The power purchase understanding with multinational utility program Iberdrola should help Amazon prey new data centers it has planned in the region . Last May , the company said it would invest$17 billionin base projects , include data point centers , in Spain .
Amazon ’s power bill has been soar lately as it tote up data center to deal out with uprise need for AI and swarm military service .
One of the projects that Amazon is purchase into — the Tâmega wind farm — is being build alongside a massive hydroelectric dam arrangement in Portugal . The complex consists of a total of three dams , one of which is an 880 - megawatt pumped - storage decameter .
Pumped - storage facilities have two reservoirs , one gamy in height , one low . When great power is postulate , water is free from the upper reservoir to reel turbine . When there ’s supererogatory power , massive pumps shift piddle from the lower artificial lake to the upper one . pump memory board is , in essence , a massive electric battery .
The 274 - megawatt of wind turbines being installed at Tâmega will feed great power to the grid through the hydro complex ’s subsist connection , and when there ’s excess , it can be used to pump water to the upper source . Such hybrid installations ensure power can be fed to the grid systematically from otherwise intermittent renewable resource like wind and solar .
Amazon is also buying a portion of the tycoon from more typical wind and solar works in northwesterly Spain . Last class , the company was the tumid vendee of renewable major power .
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Tech company have been buying power from renewable projects at a reasonably consistent pace , drive in part by how rapidly and inexpensively wind , solar , and batteries can be set up . Last calendar month , Meta say that it had signed two largedeals for solar exponent , andMicrosoftandGooglepreviously foretell that they were each back multibillion - dollar bill renewable investment .
