Some of the largest companies on the planet might have been born on the internet, but they still have real in-person requirements to run successfully. The data centers hosting the infrastructure of websites like Facebook, Amazon and Google have high electrical demands, the larger examples reaching 100 MW; not to mention the energy demands of those companies’ headquarters and, in Amazon’s case, retail warehouses. That’s why these internet and e-commerce giants have made major power purchases and commissioned the installation of solar projects globally. Here are just a few of those arrays located in the United States:
Solarman says
I see a lot of these sites have roof top solar PV also. How much does the roof top solar PV offset the grid infrastructure transformer step losses?