Google is officially 100% sun and wind powered – 3.0 gigawatts worth

Re:Google is officially 100% sun and wind powered – 3.0 giga... by murph-almighty on Friday December 01, 2017 @01:01AM (#15822244)

This is amazing, especially considering their cloud services. Powering an entire datacenter on renewable can NOT be easy.

Does Amazon have a similar initiative? Given their market share in the cloud and their widespread AZ's I imagine it'd be tricky.

edit: jk, apparently their energy needs are half that of Google and they're making headway. (https://electrek.co/2017/10/19/amazon-wind-farm/)

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Re:Google is officially 100% sun and wind powered – 3.0 giga... by dastbe on Friday December 01, 2017 @01:22PM (#15825929)

I think your math on that last bit is off. The article states they have 1.2GW, which is somewhere between 40% and 50% of Amazon's power usage (started 2016 at 40%, expect to exit at 50%). That would peg 100% at somewhere between 2.4 and 3.

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