07-12-2016 22:58 via thedrum.com

Google is going completely renewable in 2017

Search giant Google announced in a blog post this week that it expects to hit its goal of 100% renewable energy soon, which is a huge feat, considering the data centers it runs are massive.
The post stated that people search Google trillions of times every year and that more than 400 hours of YouTube videos are uploaded every minute. This takes a ton of energy, and even with engineers spending years perfecting the data centers and making them more efficient, Google thought it would both address
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