Prysmian, Rio Tinto Partner To Bring Low-carbon Aluminum To Amazon Data Centre
Italian cable maker, Prysmian recently announced a partnership with British-Australian multinational mining company, Rio Tinto, to supply electrical cables made with low-carbon aluminium for an Amazon data centre in Ohio, United States.
According to the company, the cables will use aluminium produced with ELYSIS “inert-anode” technology, which Prysmian said eliminates direct greenhouse gas emissions from the smelting process, releasing pure oxygen instead.
The project is the first known use of inert-anode-smelted aluminum in a data center, the company said. “The use demonstrates that the carbon footprint of data centers can be reduced at the raw material level,” the firm said.
In the collaboration, Prysmian will manufacture the cables at its Sedalia, Missouri facility. The project builds on the collaboration announced by Prysmian and Rio Tinto in March 2026.
Vice president of Data Centre Engineering at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Joern Tinnemeyer linked the initiative to the company’s 2040 net zero target.
