3 years ago

Category: Cloud, automation

When we think of climate change and the existential threat of global warming, our minds often conjure images of dirty factories pumping out carbon dioxide or fuel-guzzling cars sitting idle with their engines rumbling. We think of ice sheets tumbling into the ocean and sea levels rising, and we know that grand, sweeping changes are needed.

In the U.S. alone, data centers use roughly 660 billion liters of water per year to generate electricity and cool their facilities. In recent years, greenhouse gas emissions from data centers have eclipsed that of the entire global airline industry.

Google knows this, and vowed to power all of its data centers using carbon-free energy by 2030.