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The renewable energies obtained another victory when Amazon signed contracts to buy 476 megawatts of wind and solar in the Iberian Peninsula.
The energy purchase agreements with the multinational Iberdrola utility should help Amazon feed new data centers that it has planned in the region. Last May, the company said it would invest $ 17 billion In infrastructure projects, including data centers, in Spain.
The Amazon Energy Bill has been flying lately, as it adds data centers to discuss the growing demand for AI and cloud services.
One of the projects in which Amazon is buying, the Tâmega wind farm, is being built together with a massive system of hydroelectric dams in Portugal. The complex consists of a total of three dams, one of which is a pumping storage dam of 880 megawatts.
Pumping storage facilities have two deposits, one higher in elevation, one lower. When energy is needed, water is released from the upper tank to make turbines. When there is an excess of power, the massive pumps change water from the lower than the upper tank. Pumping storage is, in effect, a massive battery.
The 274 megawatts of the wind turbines that are installed in Tâmega will feed the energy to the grid through the existing connection of the hydroelectric complex, and when there is an excess, it can be used to pump water to the upper tank. These hybrid facilities ensure that energy can be fed to the network consistently from intermittent renewable resources such as wind and solar.
Amazon is also buying a portion of the energy of the most typical wind and solar plants in northwest Spain. Last year, the company was the largest renewable energy buyer.
Technology companies have been buying energy from renewable projects at a fairly consistent rate, partly driven by the speed and economic that can be installed, batteries and batteries. Last month, Meta said he had signed two major agreements for solar energy, and Microsoft and Google previously announced that they were supporting multimillion -dollar renewable investments.
