Continuing its previous advocacy for renewable energy applications, Google announcedMore than US$20 billion will be invested, plans to build wind and solar power generation facilities with a total capacity of 18MW of electricity at 1600 locations in the United States, South America and Europe, thereby increasing the total amount of environmentally friendly energy produced by Google by 40%.
This investment is the largest single investment Google has ever made in renewable energy applications. At the same time, Google also emphasized that its investment in renewable energy has almost doubled over the years.
Before this, Google had already established a presence in Taiwan.Procurement of renewable energy generated by wind power in Tainan, to supply the data center in Changhua, and is also planned to be used for the data center expansion in Tainan in the future.
However, despite emphasizing its investment in renewable energy, Google is inevitably criticized for its practice of purchasing renewable energy for carbon compensation in order to achieve a formal zero-carbon emission target. Therefore, this time, by investing a large amount of money in self-produced renewable energy, it is obviously also hoping to reverse the criticism from its own employees and the outside world.
