Google’s Data Centers To Use ‘Carbon-Intelligent Computing’ ‘Google can now shift moveable compute tasks between different data centers, based on regional hourly carbon-free energy availability,’ says Ross Koningstein, co-founder of Google’s Carbon-Intelligent Computing project. By Mark Haranas May 19, 2021, 01:55 PM EDT As Google continues to pour billions into building new data centers across the globe, the public cloud and search giant says it will shift the data processing for things like Google photos and YouTube videos to data centers where green power is more available. Starting in 2021, Google’s “carbon-intelligent computing” will move workloads from data center to data center based on availably of renewable energy for more than one-third of its non-production workloads.