{"id":989633,"date":"2026-02-04T08:05:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T02:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989633"},"modified":"2026-02-04T08:11:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T02:41:01","slug":"power-grid-delays-challenge-amazons-data-centre-expansion-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/04\/power-grid-delays-challenge-amazons-data-centre-expansion-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Power grid delays challenge Amazon&#8217;s data centre expansion in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long delays to get power grid connections are challenging Amazon&#8217;s plans to expand data \u200dcenters in Europe, the company told Reuters, as industries ramp up pressure on policymakers to upgrade ageing energy grids. Energy-intensive \u2060industries have urged the European Union to invest more in grids, warning that a fast connection to stable, reliable power networks is a key criteria for investments in new industrial sites in Europe. <\/p>\n<p>Pamela MacDougall, Amazon Web Services&#8217; (AWS) head of energy markets and \u200cregulation in \u200cEMEA, said the timeline for getting a grid connection had become one of the biggest deciding factors in the company&#8217;s data center investments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long delays to get power grid connections are challenging Amazon&#8217;s plans to expand data \u200dcenters in Europe, the company told Reuters, as industries ramp up pressure on policymakers to upgrade ageing energy grids. Energy-intensive \u2060industries have urged the European Union to invest more in grids, warning that a fast connection to stable, reliable power networks is a key criteria for investments in new industrial sites in Europe. Pamela MacDougall, Amazon Web Services&#8217; (AWS) head of energy markets and \u200cregulation in \u200cEMEA, said the timeline for getting a grid connection had become one of the biggest deciding factors in the company&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}