Google To Be Carbon-Free By 2030, Run Entirely On Renewable Energy

For a few years now tech companies like Apple and Google have been striving hard to reduce their carbon footprint and consume less energy to reduce the stress they put on our planet.

Last year, we saw Google announce that it made the largest purchase of renewable energy with 1.6 gigawatt and today, a year later, it has made some even bigger announcements.

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Sundar Pichai in a blog post has announced that they¡¯ve decided to eliminate the entire carbon legacy which includes emissions before they became carbon neutral in the year 2007. They¡¯re doing this by purchasing high-quality carbon offsets which brings Google¡¯s lifetime net carbon footprint to zero -- making it the first major company to do so.

Google has also made improvements to its commitment surrounding running on carbon-free energy across its offices and data centres. Pichai has promised that by 2030, Google aims to run its businesses carbon-free, all the time.

Google has also announced that it is helping its partners adopt a sustainable workflow. They announced that they¡¯ll be investing in manufacturing regions to allow 5 Gigawatts of new carbon-free energy and help over 500 cities reduce their carbon footprint while empowering a billion people with its products.

Moreover, it feels that these moves will help generate over 20,000 jobs in the field of clean energy and other associated industries in not just the US but several other countries.

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Pichai while announcing this, stated, ¡°Last week, many of us woke up to orange skies in Northern California as wildfires continued to rage up and down the West Coast. I know others in Australia and Brazil have recently experienced similar events, and sadly they won¡¯t be the last. The science is clear: The world must act now if we¡¯re going to avert the worst consequences of climate change.¡±