The wind that will be powering Google’s latest European data center facility has a foul odor to it. It’s coming from certain people involved in selecting European sites, one of whom has pled guilty of conspiracy.
Google, the world’s biggest corporate buyer of clean energy, expects to reach a major milestone next year: running the company entirely with wind and solar power.
The likely sale of two closed, fuel oil- and coal-firing power facilities by Italy’s largest electricity provider, Enel, to Amazon Web Services for repurposing as cloud data center facilities — as discovered by Reuters Wednesday — appears to...
It’s the latest big win for a provider of renewable wind energy. But what will it take to prepare Wyoming’s power grid to sustain a power draw that Microsoft estimates somewhere north of 200 megawatts?