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Amazon Web Services has cancelled plans for a €300-million server rack manufacturing plant in Dublin’s Ballycoolin industrial zone, citing an inability to secure timely electricity access from Ireland’s grid operator, ESB Networks, Irish media reported on Friday. The facility, which would have supported Amazon’s expanding AI infrastructure, was expected to …

A group of large energy users, including technology giants Amazon, Google, and Meta, on Wednesday pledged their support to the goal of at least tripling global nuclear capacity by 2050. The tech firms were among the founding signatories of the pledge as a cross-industry group of eight large energy users …

US technology and e-commerce group Amazon.com Inc has further expanded its portfolio of renewable energy projects backing its European operations, adding more than 1 GW of clean energy capacity as it works to achieve its overall renewables goal. The tech giant, which is the world’s largest corporate purchaser of renewable …

Amazon is previewing the sustainable aspects of its soon-to-open “HQ2” complex in Arlington, Va. In a corporate blog post, Amazon highlighted sustainable features of the campus, including low-carbon concrete, mass timber, electrified energy-efficient operations, advanced ways to reuse water, and two acres of landscaped roofs with native plants. In 2018, …

Amazon has announced its first wind-solar hybrid projects with Vibrant Energy. They will build 300 MW of renewables capacity at two sites in the Indian states of Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka. Upon completion, the projects will generate 1,163 GWh of clean energy, which is equal to the electricity needed to …

Amazon announced its plans to scale up investment in renewable energy projects to power most of its business operations via renewable energy. At its AWS re:Invent 2021 event in Las Vegas, the company announced 18 new renewable energy projects, primarily wind and solar, across countries such as Finland, Germany, Italy, …

Amazon and Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) jointly announced they have signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) for a 22 MW solar project in Japan. Operated by MC’s retail subsidiary, MC Retail Energy, the unique solar project is aggregated, which means that it is made up of numerous ground-mounted solar installations currently …

Over 50 percent of the energy generated by a 759 megawatt windfarm under development 18.5 kilometers west of the coastal town of Egmond aan Zee will be used by Amazon. Shell and Eneco are constructing the wind farm in the Hollandse Kust (noord) development area with a target of being …

Despite all they’re doing to address climate change with both emissions reduction plans, circular economy innovation and consumer awareness, Amazon, Google and Microsoft have been criticised for their close ties to the oil and gas sector. All of them are using their artificial intelligence prowess and analytics power to help …