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Google: A better web
Better for the environment
Google has worked hard to
minimise the environmental
impact of their services.
In fact, when they provide
an active user one-month
of Google services, they use less energy
than driving a car one mile and if you add
in their renewable energy and offsets,
their footprint is zero.
Google continues to find new ways to
reduce the impact even further.
Data centres that save energy
Google data centres are some of the
most efficient in the world, to be specific,
their data centres use only 50%
of the energy of most other data centres.
In addition to reducing the impact
on the environment, their efficient data
centre designs have saved them over
a billion dollars to date and according
to an independent study, Google uses
very little of the world’s electricity (less
than 0.01%). Additionally, Google was
the first major Internet service company
to gain external certification of its
high environmental and energy management
standards throughout their
data centres.
Greening their power
Currently, very little of the world’s
power is from renewables like wind
and solar. Google has been working
on changing that by buying electricity
directly from wind farms near their
data centers. Google also is working
with their utility partners to find solutions
that will make more renewable
energy available for us and for others.
All of these initiatives help it get clean
energy at competitive prices and the
wind farm owners get the money they
need to finance new clean energy facilities.
Together, they make the grid a little
bit greener.
On their own turf
Google’s commitment to reducing the
environmental impact extends to
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