Amazon has signed power purchase agreements with Swedish-based OX2 Suomi for two Finnish wind power projects.
The project, worth 700 million euros, is the largest single investment in wind power in Finnish history. It will see the construction of two wind farms with 70 windmills in Rajamäenkylä in South Ostrobothnia and Honkakangas in Central Ostrobothnia. With a combined production capacity of 472 megawatts (MW) it is equivalent to about two percent of Finland's entire electricity production.
AWS doesn’t currently operate a Finnish cloud region (though it operates a Local Zone Edge location in Helsinki) and does not plan to build a data centre in Finland at this time. Amazon's closest data centers are in Sweden and the company is expanding its data centers there in Eskilstuna, Katrineholm, and Västerås.
Amazon has purchased electricity from Finland before. After the latest investment, Amazon has eleven wind farms in Finland, with a combined production capacity of 772 megawatts.
“We want to provide our customers with the infrastructure and services they need, while ensuring that our operations run on clean electricity,” says Lindsay McQuade, Amazon’s EMEA energy director.
