Following five years of high rises in carbon emissions, new data indicates that Amazon’s server farms in eastern Oregon are using significantly less fossil fuel to power their operations.
A recent state report on the local electric utility that supplies Amazon’s data centers in Morrow and Umatilla counties makes the change clear. Amazon is by far the biggest consumer of the tiny Umatilla Electric Cooperative, a member-owned utility that services the eastern Oregon counties, even though the company’s power usage isn’t publicly revealed.
