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Google’s data center energy use doubled in 4 years
Google has pledged to use only carbon-free sources of electricity to power its operations, a task made more challenging by its breakneck pace of data center growth.
Google has pledged to use only carbon-free sources of electricity to power its operations, a task made more challenging by its breakneck pace of data center growth. It’s clear that Google needs more electricity, and to keep to its carbon-free pledge, it has been investing heavily in a range of energy sources, including geothermal, both flavors of nuclear power, and renewables. “When we announced to the world that we were achieve that 100% annual matching goal, we were very clear that wasn’t the end state,” Michael Terrell, Google’s head of advanced energy, told reporters last week.
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