Amazon, Duke Energy accused of evading Clean Air Act at under-development data center in Hamlet, North Carolina
Generators permitted for one year
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Amazon's carbon emissions grow by 16 percent in 2025, on the back of record data center capacity additions
Company admits demand could impact progress to net-zero by 2040
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AWS in-row heat exchanger to reduce water use by 9% over evaporative air-cooled data centers
Custom solution deployed for AI workloads
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AWS says it added more data center capacity "than any other company" in 2025, including 1.2GW in Q4
The cloud king looks to hold onto its throne
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Amazon signs 90MW onshore wind PPA with Egg Power in Scotland
Biggest onshore wind PPA signed within in UK market
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AWS inks recycled water supply agreement with Greater Western Water for planned data center in Melbourne, Australia
Supplied via the Melton Recycled Water Plant
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Amazon data centers used 2.5bn gallons of water in 2025
AWS shares the small number, as anti-data center protests focus on water usage
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Amazon partners with Veolia to deploy water-reuse technology at data centers in Mississippi
First deployment expected in 2027
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AWS partners with Japanese power company Jera to enhance firms digital tools
Will also collaborate on renewable energy development to power AWS data centers
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AWS signs 110MW offshore wind PPA with RWE in Germany
Tied to the 900MW Nordseecluster B offshore wind farm in the eastern German North Sea
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Rio Tinto to supply AWS with low-carbon copper for US data centers
AWS to provide Rio Tinto with cloud-based data and analytics services
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Amazon, X-energy partner with South Korean consortium to advance SMR development across US
Aim to mobilize up to $50 billion in public and private investments
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Residents cheer as Tucson rejects Amazon's massive Project Blue data center campus in Arizona
Beale Infrastructure's Arizona site could have grown to two million sq ft
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AWS signs 80MW PPA with Gentari in Tamil Nadu, India
Wind project expected to be commissioned in mid 2027
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AWS breaks ground on water replenishment project in Sweden
Expected to be completed next year
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AWS to provide RWE with cloud and AI services
Will also collaborate on renewable energy development
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Amazon to expand number of data centers using recycled water to 120
Company currently uses wastewater for cooling at 20 sites
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India's Tata Power migrates workloads to AWS
Indian power company is turning to cloud computing to accelerate energy transition
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Amazon signs two PPAs in India with CleanMax and BluPine Energy
The projects have a combined capacity of 199MW
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Amazon signs PPA with ERG in Northern Ireland
Will deliver the hyperscaler 2.5TWh of power
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Amazon signs 476MW of PPAs with Iberdrola across Spain and Portugal
Combined the projects are expected to generate 1,093GWh per year
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AWS pledges to use low-carbon concrete for future Japanese data centers
Partners with three firms for the use of ECM concrete, biochar, and Cleancrete
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AWS says power outage in nearby Swedish town was unrelated to its data center work
After local reports blamed the company for three outages
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AWS global data centers achieved PUE of 1.15 in 2023
Company reveals PUE numbers for the first time
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AWS to develop carbon removal material in data centers
The company has partnered with startup Orbital Materials which has developed a carbon-filtering substance for use in data centers
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AWS launches new data center components to support AI
Includes innovations in power, cooling, and hardware design for greater energy efficiency
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Appalachian Power identifies site for SMR in Virginia
The company plans to apply for project approval with the Virginia State Corporation Commission in the spring of 2025
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FERC blocks plan for Susquehanna nuclear plant interconnection to Amazon data center
Would have supported an expanded colocated load at an AWS data center connected to the 2.5GW plant