Amazon buys into Greek wind power

US tech giant Amazon is investing in three new large-scale wind farms in Greece, which it sees as a particularly important area of Central and Eastern Europe where it is strategically developing with new data centers.

Part of the energy for the operation of its activities in this wider region will be covered by wind farms under construction in Macedonia and the Peloponnese, to start operating in 2026.

Amazon has signed four power purchase agreements (PPAs): Two of them concern the wind farm in Vermio mountains in Western and Central Macedonia, with a capacity of 295 megawatts, and the other two for farms in the areas of Mesokorfi and Kakoura in the Peloponnese, with a capacity of 33.6 and 31 MW, respectively.

The three wind farms belonged to the Greek company Enteka, and are now owned by the US fund Quantum Energy Partners and being developed through its Dublin...