Google Invests Big in Wind Power
Right after investing $38.8 Billion (with a “B”), Google has purchased 20 years worth of wind energy from a company in Iowa. If you ever wondered what it looked like to have more money than you know what to do with, investigate this growing company.
Google began it’s commitment to become carbon neutral back in 2007 and announced on it’s blog today that the contract to purchase wind energy will power “several of it’s datacenters”.
As with anything Google does, it did it big. The deal is the first transaction by Google Energy, a subsidiary of Google with SEC approval to trade energy on the open market.
So what does it cost Google actually consume in energy? It uses half a milliliter of water (in energy) for each search, therefore the 300 million searches each day require 150,000 liters of water to produce the required electrical power.
