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Google Explains Why It Became an Energy Trader

Posted by kdawson on from the not-pulling-an-enron dept.

angry tapir writes "Google has explained how it might use its status as an energy-trading company to increase the use of renewable energy sources in its data centers. In February, the company's Google Energy subsidiary received approval from the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to buy and sell power on the wholesale market."

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  1. Good for them, now fix my privacy on Buzz. by masterwit · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I can see that smug cloud building. (bad joke I know)

    But on a more serious note: a link to their site about their data-centers going green: http://www.google.com/corporate/green/datacenters/ Only at Google would they compare "15,000 Google Searches" to a cheeseburger...

    Unrelated: "A five mile trip in the average U.S. automobile" they rate at 10,000 "Google Searches", they obviously have NOT seen how I drive. But don't judge, I am easily amused...the circumference of the earth (meridian, by car) is ~4.9*10^6 Google Searches

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