The proposed wind farm is in line with AWS’ commitment to achieve 100% renewable energy usage for its infrastructure across the globe.
AWS Infrastructure vice president Jerry Hunter said: "This agreement, and those previously in place, puts AWS on track to surpass our goal of 40 percent renewable energy globally by the end of 2016.
"We’ll continue pursuing projects that deliver clean energy to the various energy grids that serve AWS data centers, we’ll continue working with our power providers to increase their renewable energy quotient, and we’ll continue to strongly encourage our partners in government to extend the tax incentives that make it more viable for renewable projects to get off the ground."
To be located in Perquimans and Pasquotank counties, the project is said to be the first utility-scale wind farm in the state.
Expected to become operational in December next year, the wind farm will have a annual power generation capacity of around 670,000MW.
The clean energy generated at the wind farm will power the electrical grid that supplies both current and future AWS Cloud data centers.
In April 2015, AWS announced that close to 25% of power used by its global infrastructure was from renewable energy sources.
