Amazon has announced power purchase agreements with nine renewable energy projects in New South Wales and Victoria, nearly doubling its Australian renewable capacity from 430MW to close to 1GW. The deals span one wind farm and ten solar and battery storage projects — including one built on a former coalmine site in Muswellbrook — and mark Amazon's first investment in solar-battery hybrid projects outside the United States. The announcement comes amid growing scrutiny of the datacentre industry's energy and water consumption in Australia, with critics noting that such agreements do not always bring new power onto the grid and calling for greater transparency around how much electricity the facilities actually use.