Google hits renewable energy goal in quest to pare pollution
SAN FRANCISCO — Google is crossing a milestone in its quest to reduce pollution caused by its digital services that devour massive amounts of electricity.
The internet company believes that beginning next year, it will have amassed enough renewable energy to meet all of its electricity needs throughout the world.
That’s significant, given Google’s ravenous appetite for electricity to power its offices and the huge data centers that process requests on its dominant search engine, store Gmail, YouTube video clips and photos for more than a billion people.