Google gets round-the-clock renewable energy at Virginia data centres with help of energy storage
Published: 5 May 2021, 15:25 By: Onsite solar PV generation at Googles data centre in Saint Ghislain, Belgium. Image: Google. Google will procure energy from a US$600 million portfolio of renewables and energy storage assets specially-designed to enable the search engine company’s data centres in Virginia to run on 90% carbon-free electricity. Data centres represent about 1% of the entire world’s energy usage and while Google became carbon neutral as far back as 2007, the comp...
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