{"id":117422,"date":"2020-12-20T01:46:06","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T09:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/google-looks-to-batteries-as-replacement-for-diesel-generators"},"modified":"2020-12-20T01:46:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T09:46:06","slug":"google-looks-to-batteries-as-replacement-for-diesel-generators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/google-looks-to-batteries-as-replacement-for-diesel-generators","title":{"rendered":"Google Looks to Batteries as Replacement for Diesel Generators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-looks-to-batteries-as-replacement-for-diesel-generators.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>O,.o.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Google will use large batteries to replace the diesel generators at one of its data centers in Belgium, describing the project as a first step towards using cleaner technologies to provide backup power for its millions of servers around the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur project in Belgium is a first step that we hope will lay the groundwork for a big vision: a world in which backup systems at data centers go from climate change problems to critical components in carbon-free energy systems,\u201d said Joe Kava, Vice President for Data Centers at Google. \u201cWe\u2019re aiming to demonstrate that a better, cleaner solution has advanced far enough to keep the internet up and running.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Google becomes the second major hyperscale cloud operator to pursue a strategy to move beyond diesel generators. In July, Microsoft said it will <a href=\"https:\/\/datacenterfrontier.com\/microsoft-plans-to-stop-using-diesel-generators-by-2030\/\">eliminate its reliance on diesel fuel<\/a> by the year 2030 and has begun testing <a href=\"https:\/\/datacenterfrontier.com\/microsoft-runs-azure-servers-using-hydrogen-fuel-cells-as-diesel-alternative\/\">hydrogen fuel cells<\/a> as an alternative. These announcements have implications beyond company-built facilities, as Google and Microsoft are major tenants in third-party data centers, most of which use <a href=\"https:\/\/datacenterfrontier.com\/tag\/generators\/\">diesel generators<\/a> for backup power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O,.o. Google will use large batteries to replace the diesel generators at one of its data centers in Belgium, describing the project as a first step towards using cleaner technologies to provide backup power for its millions of servers around the world. \u201cOur project in Belgium is a first step that we hope will lay [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1523,418,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-computing","category-internet","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}