Amazon.com Inc. and Lincoln Clean Energy have launched a 253-megawatt wind farm in Texas. That’s Amazon.com’s largest wind farm to date, and the latest in a string of wind and solar projects backed by the tech giant. The wind farm in northwestern Texas Scurry County has more than 100 wind turbines, each more than 300 feet tall. Amazon plans of 35 additional clean-energy projects for the coming years. Shares fell 1% in mid-day trading, compared with losses of 0.2% for the S&P 500 index.
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