Google to power Dutch datacentre with solar energy


  • TECH
  • Monday, 10 Jul 2017

It is part of Google's ambition to switch its datacentres and offices entirely to renewable energy this year.

AMSTERDAM: Google will purchase all the electricity generated by the largest solar park in the Netherlands over the next decade to power a recently opened datacentre housing thousands of servers, the US Internet company and energy provider Eneco said on Friday.

It is part of Google's ambition to switch its datacentres and offices entirely to renewable energy this year, helped by the steep fall in prices for wind and solar energy.

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