Dive Brief:

• Amazon Web Services announced it will build and operate a 100-megawatt wind farm in Ohio. 

• The wind farm will power Amazon's current and future cloud service data centers.

• The Amazon Wind Farm US Central is expected to generate about 320,000 megawatt hours of wind power per year beginning in May 2017 -- enough to power more than 29,000 U.S. homes a year.

Dive Insight:

Amazon has launched a handful of wind farm projects and other renewable energy initiatives over the past two years, including facilities in Benton County, Indiana, Virginia and North Carolina.

The company has a goal of 100% renewable energy use.

Earlier this year, Amazon also announced a pilot of Tesla's energy storage batteries. The batteries are designed to help "bridge the gap between intermittent production, from sources like wind, and a data center's constant power demand."