Google Applies To Become Energy Marketer

necro81 writes "Google consumes massive amounts of electrical energy to power its data centers across the country and world. Now it has created a subsidiary, Google Energy LLC, and applied (pdf) to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to become a utility-scale energy trader. Google's stated aim is to be able to purchase renewable energy directly from producers at bulk rates, pursuing its goal of becoming carbon neutral. It is likely that Google Energy would also permit Google's own renewable energy projects to sell their energy at more favorable rates. Google reportedly does not have plans to actively become an energy broker, a la Enron."

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Re:I also heard on NPR this morning...

[stonecypher]

Never forget Google's main money maker is not search, it is not ads and it is not applications. It is data and the statistics that are derived from that data.

Citation, please? Their shareholder prospectus says 97% of their revenue is from AdWords.

Why do you believe otherwise?