A curious fact about Google, and that you surely did not know, is that last year consumed as much energy as the city of San Francisco. Next year, he intends for all energy to come from solar panels and wind farms.
The online giant said last Tuesday that all your data centers around the world they will be running entirely on renewable energy sources sometime next year. A striking news for the example that can be for other large companies.
This does not say that Google computers will consume nothing but solar and wind energy. Like any other company, Google draws its power from an energy company, which operates an electrical grid typically supplied by a large number of sources, including hydroelectric, natural gas, coal, and wind power.
What Google has done in the last decade is participate in a good number of large-scale challenges with renewable energy producers, ensuring the purchase of energy that they produce with wind turbines and solar cells. With these guarantees, wind companies can obtain bank financing to create more turbines.
The energy created by renewables is brought into the electrical grid, so using Google does not present a consumption of fossil fuels and the total set of electricity obtains a greater relative share of energy sources.
Google is currently the largest corporation that buys renewable energy in the world. A good for the economy, for the business and for the shareholders of the great G. Unlike the energy coming from coal, the wind prices do not fluctuate, allowing Google to better plan your purchases. As a bonus, the more renewable energy you buy, the sources lower their prices. It is in some countries, such as Chile, where renewables are even cheaper than fossils.
By next year, 95 percent of the energy needed will be obtained from wind turbines around the world and the Google support to the industry it could get prices to keep falling.