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Google will run entirely on renewable energy next year, it says. The tech giant plans to buy enough wind and solar electricity to power all of its global operations, including data centers and offices, as well as invest in the creation of new renewable energy sources.
Google used 5.7 terawatt-hours of electricity in total last year, which it claims equates to almost half of what San Francisco consumed over the same period. Currently, Google already purchases both renewable energy and generates its own. Part of the energy it purchases comes through large-scale, long-term contracts with suppliers, something it began doing in 2010 with a 114-megawatt wind farm in Iowa.
And now it plans to ramp up its efforts and draw on renewables for every last unit of electricity needed for its global operations. In a blog post published today, Google's senior vice president for technical infrastructure Urs Hölzle points to the declining costs of wind and solar energy that make it an attractive route in a business sense, on top of the obvious environmental benefits.
(Score: 2) by art guerrilla on Saturday December 10 2016, @12:08PM
oh, it is even worse than you can imagine, and i'm quite upset about it...
it will be the silly hyphen-people that will cause the heat death of the universe in their vanity and thoughtlessness...
for most nerds here, it will only take two seconds of contemplation to see the eventual destruction of the universe due to hyphen-people...
A. two hu-mans meet and marry, li'l johnny appleseed, and li'l jane throckmorton, so they foolishly combine names to form the Appleseed-Throckmortons (or Throckmorton-Appleseeds, not sure how they work that out)...
B. they procreate (i read about it in a book once) and have li'l jimmy Appleseed-Throckmorton...
C. in spite of being weighed down by a ridiculous name, li'l jimmy grows up and meets li'l, um, achmed Mohmammed-Farkington (i don't judge, okay, yes i do, but i have to pwetend i don't judge), they marry and form the preposterous union of the Appleseed-Throckmorton-Mohmmed-Farkingtons...
D. um, do i have to break out the crayons and draw a picture ? ? ? this OBVIOUSLY -within 3-4 generations- leads to the heat death of the universe, because we will be forced to mine the asteroids JUST FOR THE 'Hello, I'm _____________________________________________________________________________' NAMETAGS alone ! ! ! one page forms are now 2+ pages JUST FOR THE NAMES, etc, etc, etc...
the next step is that the hyphen-people will then start hyphenating everything to normalize eeevil hyphenation, DON'T BE FOOLED, kampers ! ! !
if you run out the math, it was 10-12 years left in the life of the universe because of selfish hyphen-people...
nice...
based on a true story...