Google Moving Workloads Between Data Centers to Use Greener Energy The Google data center campus at Eemshaven in the Netherlands, with nearby wind turbines in the background. (Photo: Google) Google is moving workloads between data centers to boost its use of renewable energy, shifting the data processing for YouTube videos and Google photos to locations where green power is plentiful. It’s a development that creates powerful new opportunities to green create cloud applications powered by solar, wind and geothermal energy. Today’s news builds on Google’s carbon-aware computing strategy, and demonstrates how software and network connectivity can transcend traditional limitations on green computing. This is a growing priority for hyperscale cloud builders and their users, as climate-driven disasters bring new urgency to sustainability.