Amber Plante for Zondits, July 23, 2015. Image credit: inspiredimages Amazon.com Inc.’s decision to have a North Carolina wind farm fuel its cloud services data centers is nearly poetic for the company whose customers have been clamoring for more renewable energy operations. It’s also a boon for the region: the Amazon Wind Farm US East, powered […]
Amazon plans wind farm to power its data centers The Seattle Times, January 20. 2015 Long criticized by some environmentalists for indifference to clean energy, Amazon.com took a big step toward using renewable energy Tuesday, announcing plans to support the construction and operation of a wind farm in western Indiana. Amazon will work with Pattern […]
Across the country, laborers are hard at work lifting 700-pound shelves full of multivolume encyclopedias, propane grills or garden gnomes and dragging them across vast warehouse floors. Carefully trained not to bump into one another, the squat workers are 320 pounds and a mere 16 inches tall.
In downtown Seattle, Amazon is proposing a significant energy efficiency project for their new three-building campus. Heat recovery from the Clise Properties data center will be used for space heating in the new Amazon campus.
