- Amazon is the “main corporate buyer of renewable energy in Europe”
- 10 European countries obtained solar and wind energy investments
- Amazon wants to be a net-zero carbon for 2040
Amazon has boldly declared that it is now the “main corporate buyer of renewable energy in Europe”, which gives another chain to its arch against Microsoft and Google.
Only in 2024, the Electronic Commerce and Cloud computing giant says it added 26 renewable energy projects and 20 facilities on the site in Europe, which consist mainly in solar and wind farms.
The biggest beneficiary of Amazon’s energy investments was Spain, with 15 new solar and wind farms and two other solar facilities on the site.
Amazon is betting to be great for European renewable energy
The total range of Amazon now covers more than 230 solar and wind energy projects in Europe, with its renewable energy portfolio that generates 9 GW of energy, sufficient to feed the equivalent of 6.7 million European homes annually.
Italy, Greece, Finland, the United Kingdom, Germany, France and the Czech Republic also benefited from extensive solar investments, with Northern Ireland and Portugal receiving investments in wind farms.
“Increasing the amount of renewable energy in Europe’s electrical networks is the fastest and most cheap way of helping the Europe , Lindsay Mcquade.
Amazon has not published its sustainability report 2024, but in 2023 the company said it used “lower carbon materials” such as steel and concrete, and changed some of them for wood, to save 46,700 tons of CO2E, the same, the same, The same amount of emissions that would produce 11,100 US cars in 12 months.
AWS is also reconsidering its backup generators, with sites in Ireland, Sweden and Oregon that now use hydrotado vegetable oil for fuel instead of diesel.
Sustainability Director Kara Hurst confirmed Amazon’s plans to crush the Paris Agreement plans, reaching net-zero carbon emissions of a decade in early 2040. He also confirmed that the entire company reached 100% renewable energy consumption seven years in early 2023.
The company also wants to be positive for water for the end of this decade, a dispute issue in the world of data centers, where powerful computers consume large amounts of water for cooling.
