Chennai, Tamil Nadu, August 5, 2025- In the wind-swept hills of Tamil Nadu, a quiet shift is taking hold. AWS has inked an 80 MW wind power deal with Gentari, PETRONAS’s clean energy subsidiary, one that doesn’t just tick the sustainability box but lays new groundwork for India’s green cloud.
“As the world's largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy globally, AWS continues to work towards our goal of reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2040,” said Jeff Johnson, Managing Director for ASEAN at AWS. “Our collaboration with Gentari, a Malaysian clean energy leader expanding its regional impact, brings us a step closer towards that. We're proud to work with forward-thinking organisations like Gentari who share our commitment to both technological advancement and environmental stewardship.”
By 2027, this deal will deliver over 300,000 MWh of clean energy annually into India’s grid. For Amazon Web Services, this isn’t a footnote; it’s an accelerating commitment to decarbonise one of the world’s fastest-growing cloud markets.
For Gentari, it marks a strategic foothold in a critical geography, executed not with fanfare but with precision.
AWS has already committed over $4.4 billion to Indian infrastructure. From its Mumbai region launched in 2016 to its second region in Hyderabad in 2022, the company is scaling compute in step with India’s digital boom. But with computing comes carbon. And this latest PPA (Power Purchase Agreement) shows how AWS is trying to bend that curve, with wind.
The project is located in Karur, Tamil Nadu, one of India’s most power-rich wind zones. What makes it more strategic is the infrastructure behind it. The site is part of a broader 150 MW development supported by Adani Green Energy, whose 2.5 GW transmission network in the state enables bankable access to consistent green power.
In a country where curtailment and congestion can undermine renewables, this backbone is key.
“This collaboration reflects our shared commitment to advancing practical, scalable, and clean energy solutions, vital for Asia and the world’s move towards a low-carbon future,” said Sushil Purohit, CEO of Gentari. “Through projects like the Karur wind development, we are not just adding renewable capacity, we are addressing real energy needs where it matters most. Together with AWS, we are focused on delivering impact through action and enabling the broader energy ecosystem to transition.”
Gentari’s involvement marks a step-change in its India play. Formed in 2022 as a PETRONAS subsidiary, Gentari has moved fast, investing across solar, wind, hydrogen, and EV infrastructure across Southeast Asia.
This deal with AWS is its most high-profile entry into the Indian renewable landscape to date, and it’s telling that it came through a long-term PPA, not equity.
From AWS’s perspective, the deal isn’t isolated. Amazon is already the largest corporate buyer of renewable energy globally, with over 500 projects worldwide. In India alone, it has invested in 50 wind and solar installations across six states. But the Gentari agreement stands out for one reason: it’s a direct play on the future of cloud infrastructure in Asia.
This isn’t about greenwashing. It’s grid-shaping.
India, already the world’s third-largest cloud market by traffic, is becoming a testbed for sustainable hyperscale. With Tamil Nadu emerging as a renewables powerhouse and state policy increasingly aligned with climate targets, the region is ripe for low-carbon infrastructure at scale.
By going deep into PPAs, AWS isn’t just reducing scope 2 emissions: it’s embedding clean power into the operational DNA of its cloud. The 80 MW here will power workloads most users never see: inference farms, storage clusters, edge caching, until you realise that every photo, model, and backup has a physical footprint.
The signal from Gentari and AWS is this: if the cloud is going to grow, its infrastructure must evolve, and that evolution has already begun.
What’s unfolding in Tamil Nadu may look like a regional energy deal. But it’s more than that. It’s a blueprint for how hyperscale players, energy giants, and local policy can intersect, not just to meet ESG goals, but to shape the future of compute itself.
And if the winds keep blowing right, India won’t just be hosting the cloud. It’ll be powering it.
