More renewable energy for our data centers

[cleverjake]

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/09/more-renewable-energy-for-our-data.html

[anathan]

I'm still excited about their old idea of floating data centers that uses ocean water to lose exess heat.

[Evbn → anathan]

Won't that cause hurricanes?

[autotravis]

They say they are using 260 MW from renewable energy, so far. I wonder how much they need to meet their carbon neutrality goal.

[autotravis → autotravis]

Here we go: "We're currently using renewable energy to power over 30% of our operations..."

So they need ~867 MW to be neutral, depending on how outdated this page is: http://www.google.com/green/energy/.

I commend their efforts.

[vsloo → autotravis]

At least didn't just resort to buying offshore offset credits right?

[Evbn → vsloo]

They do buy offsets, which are reputed to be higher quality than the BS you can add to your Dell shopping cart or whatever.