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Published: 5 May 2021, 15:25 By: Onsite solar PV generation at Google's 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 company has long acknowledged that this is more a case of offsetting its energy use through renewable e...

Dive Brief: AES announced on Tuesday a 10-year agreement to be the sole supplier of energy to three Google data centers in Virginia, providing clean power around the clock through a 500-MW portfolio of resources. Through the partnership, AES will decarbonize Google's load in Virginia. The partnership "lays a blueprint for other companies looking to decarbonize their own operations," Michael Terrell, Google's director of energy, said in a statement. AES assembled a portfolio of its own projects and renewable generation by third-party developers, simplifying cost-efficient procurement for the t...

/PRNewswire/ -- The AES Corporation (NYSE: AES) announced today that it has signed an agreement to supply the electricity to power Google's (NASDAQ: GOOGL)...

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In 2017, Google became the first major company to reach 100% renewable energy through corporate renewables procurement.  But it was also the first major company to acknowledge that 100% renewable is not really 100% carbon-free. So Google set out to go further, and match procurement on an hourly basis, to reach the promised land of 24/7 zero carbon energy. It's going to be hard. But Michael Terrell, Google’s Director of Energy, thinks it’s doable. In this episode, Michael talks with Shayle about how it could even become a new norm for corporate and state commitments. But first: What wi...