Microsoft Chile, AES Andes ink renewables PPA
- Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT) has actually signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Chilean utility AES Andes SA to source renewables for its brand-new data centre it is building in Chile, both business introduced this week.

The power supply will originate from 2 projects that AES Andes will certainly have unfinished quickly-- a solar-and-storage plant located around Antofagasta, and a wind farm in the Biobio area, a press release states. No other details concerning the projects or the PPA were shared.
The contract will enable the data centre to utilize just renewables energy, the parties claimed.
"The project with AES Andes to utilize wind as well as solar power is the initial effort and also we are working with the other fronts." stated Sergio Rademacher, General Manager of Microsoft Chile.
The United States innovation titan has established a target to power all Microsoft data centres with 100% renewables by 2025, and also end up being carbon adverse by 2030.
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