How, why Google will run 100% on renewables by 2017

Editor’s note: Urs Holzle, Google Senior Vice President for Technical Infrastructure, spells out in detail how Google plans to run on 100 percent renewable energy in 2017, including its huge data center in Lenoir, N.C. This blog was original published at Google’s web site. WRAL TechWire ran an earlier story about Google’s news as well in a roundup about green energy developments.  SAN FRANCISCO – Every year people search on Google trillions of times; every minute people upload more than 400 hours of YouTube videos. All of that takes an incredible amount of processing power — which means energy....

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