Renewable energy sources achieved another victory, as Amazon signed contracts to buy 476 megawatts of wind and solar energy on the Iberian Peninsula.
Iberdrola Energy Energy Conventions should help feed the new databases that have been planned in the region. Last May, the company said it will invest 17 billion dollars In infrastructure projects, including data centers, in Spain.
The Amazon energy bill has increased recently as it adds data centers to deal with the increasing demand for AI and cloud services.
One of the projects you buy by Amazon – Tâmega Farm for wind – is built alongside a huge hydroelectric dam in Portugal. The complex consists of a total of three dams, one of which is a storage of 880 megawatts storage.
Pumping storage facilities contain two tanks, one is higher in height, one lower. When needed, water is released from the upper tank to rotate the turbine. When there is an extra power, the huge water pumps from the lower tank to the top. Pump storage is, in fact, a huge battery.
The 274 megawatts turbocharged turbines that are installed in Tâmega will feed the energy to the network through the current water complex connection, and when there is a surplus, it can be used to pump water to the upper tank. These hybrid facilities ensure the ability to constantly feed energy to the network from intermittent renewable resources such as wind and solar energy.
Amazon also purchases a portion of energy from the most typical wind and solar plants in northwestern Spain. Last year, the company was the largest renewable energy buyer.
Technology companies purchase energy from renewable projects at a somewhat consistent pace, partly driven by speed, wind, solar energy and batteries in an inexpensive manner. Last month, Mita said she signed a big deal on solar energy, and announced Microsoft and Google previously that she had supported both billions of dollars in renewed investments.
