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Google doubles down on renewable energy

You might as well go ahead and admit it: whenever a question pops up in your mind, no matter how strange or trivial it may be, you usually end up Googling it (just like everybody else does), which might be one of the reasons behind Google’s autofill weirdness! Well, from now on you can keep Googling stuff, knowing that your searches go through the company’s green-powered servers and data centers.

Google recently announced that it will double the amount of clean energy it purchases in order to power its servers. This energy will come from a variety of green sources, all over the world, such as a wind farm in Sweden, or a solar power farm in Chile. Google has also undertaken another very important and ambitious endeavor; it is currently constructing a huge wind farm in Africa, which will undoubtedly give the company access to even more renewable energy! However, not all of the company’s clean energy sources are located abroad; in fact, most of the extra 842 clean energy megawatts Google recently managed to procure will come from wind farms that are located in good old Oklahoma.

This brings Google’s total amount of clean energy consumption to about 2 gigawatts (which comes to ~37% of its total energy consumption), bringing the company that much closer to its 2025 goal of having 3.2 green gigawatts powering its data centers! The announcement was made in the most opportune moment, so as to coincide with the U.N. conference in Paris, where matters related to global warming were discussed.

Even more importantly, President Obama and Bill Gates recently announced that 20 countries around the world, along with 28 technology giants, such as Marc Benioff (salesforce.com), Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Richard Branson (Virgin Group), Jack Ma (Alibaba Group), Meg Whitman (HP), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) and Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), who have created the Breakthrough Energy Coalition, will start investing heavily on research, pertaining to the discovery and development of new clean energy sources. Following the trend, Google is also investing quite a lot of money on a wide variety of projects that are focusing on new, even more efficient ways of harvesting solar, geothermal and wind power all around the world.

Aside from Google, there are quite a few other technology giants that have turned to greener alternatives. In fact, Apple has been running all of its servers, offices and stores in the U.S. on green, renewable energy, for quite a while now -so Google will need to up the ante even more, in order to be able to claim in the near future that it runs on 100% renewable energy, too!

Sources:

http://www.aweablog.org/google-doubles-down-on-renewable-energy/

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/12/03/the-associated-press-google-ups-ante-nearly-doubles-bet-on-renewable-energy.html

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3011979/sustainable-it/google-announces-massive-clean-energy-purchase.html