This post was originally published on the Cleanview newsletter, which I also write. I’m sharing it here with Distilled readers given that I think many of you will be interested in the topic.
Amazon is building more data centers than any company in the world. In the United States, the company now consumes more electricity than the federal government. Over the next decade, Amazon plans to more than quadruple its data center capacity.
Today we’re publishing our report on how Amazon plans to power all of its data centers in the US. Over the last few months, we’ve read through hundreds of utility filings, air permits, county records and interconnection studies. This work has already led to important discoveries like the news that we broke about Amazon’s planned 7.65 GW natural gas power plant in West Texas.
While the scale of Amazon’s West Texas gas plant is staggering, it only scratches the surface of the company’s growing power fleet. We found more than 40 GW of power deals…
https://www.distilled.earth/p/amazon-is-building-44-gw-of-data
