AWS Announces Ohio Wind Farm

SEATTLE, Wash.

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), today
announced Amazon Wind Farm US Central 2, a new 189 megawatt (MW) wind farm in Hardin County,
Ohio that will generate 530,000 megawatt hours (MWh) of wind energy a
nnually starting in December
2017. Amazon engaged with EverPower, a leader in utility grade wind projects, to construct, own, and
operate the new wind farm. This is AWS’s fifth renewable energy project in the United States (and its
second wind farm in Ohio
) that will deliver energy onto the electric grid powering AWS data centers
located in the AWS US East (Ohio) and AWS US East (N. Virginia) Regions. When this newest wind farm is
completed, AWS’s five renewable energy projects will generate a grand total o
f 2.2 million MWh of
energy annually

enough to power almost 200,000 U.S. homes. For more information, go to
https://aws.amazon.com/sustainability.
In November 2014, AWS shared its long

term commitment to achieve 100 percent renewable energy
usage for the
global AWS infrastructure footprint. Ambitious sustainability initiatives over the last 18

24 months have put AWS on track to exceed its 2016 goal of 40 percent renewable energy use and enabled
AWS to set a new goal to be powered by 50 percent renewable e
nergy by the end of 2017. In addition to
investing in wind and solar projects that deliver more renewable energy to the electrical grids that
power AWS Cloud data centers, AWS continues to innovate in its facilities and equipment to increase
energy efficie
ncy, as well as to advocate for federal and state policies aimed at creating a favorable
renewable energy environment. For example, in Ohio, Amazon supports proposed changes to the state’s
current wind setbacks law to encourage more investment in new renew
able wind power projects.
This second Ohio wind project joins Amazon Wind Farm US Central (100MW) in Paulding County, which
AWS announced in November 2015 and will start producing wind energy in May 2017. Other AWS
renewable energy projects in the US inclu
de Amazon Wind Farm Fowler Ridge (100MW) in Indiana and
Amazon Solar Farm US East (80MW) in Virginia

both of which are currently in production. Amazon
Wind Farm US East (280MW) in North Carolina is under construction and expected to start generating
elec
tricity by December 2016.

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