China’s Tencent Unveils Goal to Run on 100% Green Energy by 2030
- The social media giant aims to zero out emissions by then
- Internet giants’ data centers remain major source of emissions
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Tencent Holdings Ltd. is stepping up the use of renewable energy with a goal of zeroing out emissions by 2030, acknowledging the damage wrought by its data centers while heeding Beijing’s call to protect the environment.
The Chinese social media and gaming giant plans to use all but renewable energy by the same timeframe and has already purchased 500 million kilowatt hours of wind and solar energy this year -- roughly equivalent to the electricity consumption of 40,000 American homes for a year -- to power some of its data centers, it said in a report unveiled Thursday.