Microsoft signed an agreement with GE today to buy every last bit of the wind energy from GE?s brand-new 37 -megawatt Tullahennel gale farm can be found in County Kerry, Ireland for the next 15 years.
This is a big deal on several levels. First of all, it entails Microsoft will be using a clean energy source to power at the least some of its cloud data centers in Ireland. That will likely result in a lower energy bill for Microsoft, while reducing the pollution related to running cloud services.
But this could have an impact beyond the data centers as Microsoft and GE are working on a battery technology that captures excess energy from each gust turbine. If there is excess capacity captured by this method, Microsoft and GE could dedicate it back to the Irish energy grid.
Christian Belady, general manager, Datacenter Strategy at Microsoft says this is…
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