Google, the big daddy of internet announced little over a year ago, that were on track to purchase enough renewable energy to match all its electricity consumption over the next year. And,as per the latest energy audit reports Google said that it has achieved its goal by running 100% on wind and solar energy for its operations around the world, including offices and data centers.
“We’ve been working toward this goal for a long time. At the outset of last year, we felt confident that 2017 was the year we’d meet it,” said, Urs Hölzle, Senior Vice President for Technical Infrastructure at Google. “What do we mean by “matching” renewable energy? Over the course of 2017, across the globe, for every kilowatt hour of electricity we consumed, we purchased a kilowatt hour of renewable energy from a wind or solar farm that was built specifically for Google. This makes us the first public Cloud, and company of our size, to have achieved this feat.”
The company intends to keep walking on the same path in the future also and wishes to feed all its new data centers and offices renewable energy.
Hölzle added, “This program has always been a first step for us, but it is an important milestone in our race to a carbon-free future. We do want to get to a point where renewables and other carbon-free energy sources actually power our operations every hour of every day. It will take a combination of technology, policy and new deal structures to get there, but we’re excited for the challenge.”
