Google Will Hit 100 Percent Renewable Energy This Year (inverse.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Inverse: Google has announced that after 10 years a carbon-neutral company, it will be able to brag running on entirely renewable energy at the end of 2017. That means that all of the electricity the company consumes in both its data centers and offices are provided by wind and solar energy. Announced in Google's 2017 environmental report, Google says it has created "new energy purchasing models that others can follow" and that "we've helped drive wide-scale global adoption of clean energy." In addition to being an obvious PR boon, the company says its mission of full sustainability fits in with its larger mission. (It also makes the fact that as recently as 2015 Google alone reportedly consumed as much energy as the entire city of San Francisco in a year way more palatable.)

One step the company has recently taken in marrying its ethos of sustainability with its products is a new initiative to equip Google Street View vehicles with air quality sensors. In addition to its goal of being run by renewable energy, Google is also working on achieving zero waste to landfill. Nearly half of the company's 14 data centers have already reached this goal, according to Google executive Urs Holzle's 2017 Google Environmental report released on Tuesday.

Comments

Ignoring God's gift of coal is a sin!

[Anonymous Coward]

Google is definitely evil!

Just in time for the antitrust consent decree

[HBI]

No amount of virtue signaling is going to save them from that.

Re:Yeah..

[deviated_prevert]

Yeah..what about un-recyclable non-repairable phones that you put out every six months..

I hasten to point out that the majority of android phones are not even made by google controlled companies. Then again the google hate here on slashdot is something we have come to expect in first or second post positions over the years to say the least!

Want to release the hounds? Just post something about what google is claiming to do on Slashdot. It seems that almost the entire old scroogled crowd that has shilled the shit out of slashdot for years is alive and well to say the least. IF YOU DON'T FUCKING LIKE GOOGLE USE BING and buy a Nokia phone but STFU with the bullshit google troll posts.. please!

Although I do agree that the whole carbon neutral thing is PR bullshit at least they can make themselves feel good as you use google search and make the processors somewhere in their servers get a tiny bit hotter. I am really sorry that you have to suffer through some advertising for the privilege of using the google search engine or gmail. Send your money to fucking microsoft instead and stop replacing the default search engine in Edge and IE if you are serious about how much google inc is costing you and the environment!