Google Commits to 20 Years of Green Power Purchases
Posted on 20. Jul, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey in Features, News
The Official Google blog posted really early this morning a release that talks about the company entering into a twenty year green power purchase agreement to buy energy from an Iowa wind farm called the NextEra Energy Resources Story County II. By buying this power at a set rate today for 114 megawatts over twenty years, the company puts a lot of commitment behind NextEra’s plans to expand its wind energy portfolio. It also gives Google more of what it is going to increasingly need: energy.
The second quarter saw Google double its spending on data centers – from $276 million in the first quarter to $476 million the previous. There’s no doubt that will the continued rollout of cloud computing that Google is going to need more data center infrastructure – and more power.
Consider that in the first quarter of 2008, Google spent $842 million on data center expenditures, and you can see how widely variable this spending is going to be. The price of energy fluctuates on a very high level, so whatever Google can do to stay ahead of the curve, it will do.
Chrome OS will be bringing everything to the cloud for users. That means more data is transferred from Google’s customized servers, and more power consumption on the back end. It appears that the information economy version of the industrial engine, the data center, and its ever growing use of energy will power the growth of this trend.
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