Major technology firms including Dell, Microsoft and Google have joined a new initiative aimed at creating a circular economy for electronics by 2030, amid mounting alarm over the world’s ballooning e-waste problem. According to the United Nations, more than 50 million tonnes of electronic waste (e-waste) was discarded in 2019,Continue Reading
Google has been carbon neutral since 2007, and 2019 marks the third year in a row when they ahve matched energy usage with 100 percent renewable energy purchases. To achieve 24×7 carbon-free energy, their data centers need to work more closely with carbon-free energy sources like solar and wind. KeepingContinue Reading
Corporations – including oil & gas supermajors – bought a record of almost 20GW of renewable energy through power purchase agreements (PPAs) last year, a leap of 44% on 2018, as one of the key market-driving trends in the global energy transition, according to latest figures from Bloomberg New EnergyContinue Reading
By 2020, Google wants 100% of all shipments going to or from customers to be carbon neutral. In 2020, the company also wants 100% of Made by Google products to include recycled materials. Google wants to increase its use of recycled content to the max possible. It also wants to make technologyContinue Reading
Google has been funding think tanks and lobbying organizations which actively fight against climate change legislation. Despite making noises about becoming more environmentally friendly, Google has been quietly funding organizations which say climate change isn’t real. Google’s list of beneficiaries for “substantial contributions” include numerous organizations which have been activeContinue Reading
Over the past decade, wind farms have become an important source of carbon-free electricity as the cost of turbines has plummeted and adoption has surged. However, the variable nature of wind itself makes it an unpredictable energy source – less useful than one that can reliably deliver power at aContinue Reading
Google has signed a power purchase agreement for 10 megawatts of zero emissions power from a solar power plant located about 100 kilometers south of its Chuanghua County data center in Taiwan. The Taiwan data center is one of two operated by Google in Asia. The other is in Singapore. TheContinue Reading
Google has announced that it will invest 4.5 billion Danish crowns ($690 million) in building a renewable powered data center in Fredericia, located in western Denmark. Google’s data centers are the home for a large group of servers that power its products like Search, Gmail, and YouTube. They are alsoContinue Reading
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