[New post] Google makes its largest ever purchase of renewable energy to power its data centers

Ben Lovejoy posted: " Google has announced its largest ever purchase of renewable energy to power data centers across the U.S., Sweden and Chile, reports The Washington Post. The new projects, mostly wind-powered, add a massive 842 megawatts of green energy, which Google c" Respond to this post by replying above this line New post on 9to5Google Google makes its largest ever purchase of renewable energy to power its data centers by Ben Lovejoy Google has announced its largest ever purchase of renewable energy to power data centers across the U.S., Sweden and Chile, reports The Washington Post. The new projects, mostly wind-powered, add a massive 842 megawatts of green energy, which Google claims is the largest investment ever by anyone other than a power company. The investment brings Google's total renewable energy capacity to 2 gigawatts, which is equivalent to the total energy output of the Hoover Dam. Google has pledged to power its entire operations from green energy by 2025, and Re/code reports it was 37% of the way there prior to this deal. That suggests this deal ought to take the company to around 60%. There is a little small-print, however ...  Read more of this post Ben Lovejoy | December 3, 2015 at 4:36 am | Tags: Google, Google data centers, google renewable energy, Green Energy, Renewable energy | Categories: Google Corporate | URL: http://wp.me/p1w6tN-wR5 Comment    See all comments Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from 9to5Google. Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://9to5google.com/2015/12/03/google-renewable-energy-usage-2-gigawatt/ Thanks for flying with WordPress.com