Climate Changed

Google Bought Enough Clean Power for Whole Company and Then Some

  • Company consumed about 7 terawatt-hours of power last year
  • Google is world’s biggest corporate buyer of renewable energy

Photographer: Ashley Pon/Bloomberg

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Google has more clean power than it needs.

The Alphabet Inc. unit used about 7 terawatt-hours of electricity to run all of its global operations last year, and it sourced even more than that, according to Neha Palmer, its head of energy strategy.