Google Sourced 100% Of Its Electricity From Renewable Energy Sources In 2017
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IN THE NEWS: Internet and technology giant Google announced last week that it had successfully sourced over 100% of its electricity needs from renewable energy sources in 2017, meeting a goal the company set itself in December of 2016.
Google’s data center in Eemshaven, The Netherlands.
Back at the end of 2016, Google’s Senior Vice President for Technical Infrastructure, Urs Hölzle, announced that the company was planning to source 100% of the electricity needed to run its global operations from renewable energy sources. Specifically, Hölzle promised that Google would not only buy “enough wind and solar electricity annually to account for every unit of electricity our operations consume, globally,” but the company also intended to create “new energy from renewable energy sources,” meaning that it will “only buy from projects that are funded by our purchases.” Click to read more...