Amazon, Microsoft seek licences to power data centres with fossil fuels amid energy supply warnings

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Amazon, Google, Microsoft and other major data centre operators have applied for special licences to run on-site power generators amid warnings they could be forced to reduce their demand on the power grid.

The Big Tech firms applied to the Environmental Protection Agency for permission to operate diesel generators in

case they are cut off from the power grid in an emergency scenario, an analysis of documents filed with the EPA shows.

 

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Would have thought they would have standby generators on site as backup. Hotels, factories would have them as standard.

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