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As a symptom of its economic woes, Argentina has had power outages and other utility failures. I wonder if Amazon is really confident in the national grid. Mayb

As a symptom of its economic woes, Argentina has had power outages and other utility failures. I wonder if Amazon is really confident in the national grid. Maybe it can invest in the nation's infrastructure, or has a fleshed out contingency plan.

klaudioz 7y ago
Yes, they'd go to Chile.
- murat124 7y ago
  Isn't earthquakes big thing in Chile?
  - mc32 7y ago
    To Uruguay, then!
flyGuyOnTheSly 7y ago
An amazon datacenter would most likely have it's own power plant imho.
discodave 7y ago
Given their stated goal of having 100% renewable energy for AWS by 2020, you might see some wind or solar projects popping up near their datacenters. They have a bunch near their existing facilities already (https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/sustainability/#progress https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/sustainability/#progress). Between nearby renewable energy that they have control over, and backup generators they could be OK even if the national grid has issues.