Amazon and AWS Sustainability News, Milestones, Partnerships and Net Zero Timeline

Here are additional updates.

April 2023: Sustainability Legislation, Lobbying

• Oregon Data Center Legislation: Amazon helped quash a bill in Oregon that aimed to curb the carbon output of data centers and crypto mining facilities, CNBC reported. The company said the legislation failed to address gaps in infrastructure that are needed to bring more clean energy online, CNBC added.

March 2023: Amazon and AWS Sustainability Updates, Partnerships and Milestones

Multiple updates...

• Delivery Fleet and Electric Vehicles:  Through a partnership with Rivian, the company expects to bring 100,000 electric delivery vehicles on the road by 2030. Amazon began rolling out its electric delivery vans in the summer of 2022 and now has more than 3,000 EVs on the road delivering packages to customers across the U.S.
• Partnership - Australia: WSP and AWS are collaborating in Australia to assist governments and the private sector with developing digital twins for complex infrastructure such as transport assets, buildings, bridges, and ports, the two companies said.
• Partnership - Carbon Footprint Measurement: Altruistiq and AWS are partnering to help businesses measure, manage, and reduce carbon emissions, the two technology companies said.

February 2023: Cloud Services and Energy Transition

• Partnership - Power Grids: GE Digital and AWS are partnering to help utility organizations more rapidly modernize their power grids. The relationship involves GE Digital's new grid operating system software -- known as GridOS -- paired with various AWS services.
• AWS and the Energy Transition: Howard Gefen, general manager for Energy and Utilities at AWS, , describes energy systems of the future in this blog.

January 2023: Amazon and AWS Sustainability Updates, Milestones and Partnerships

• Renewable Energy: Amazon set a "new record" for the most renewable energy purchased in a single year, the company said.