{"id":182001,"date":"2024-02-04T00:26:33","date_gmt":"2024-02-04T06:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/google-signs-its-largest-offshore-wind-projects-to-power-data-centres"},"modified":"2024-02-04T00:26:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T06:26:33","slug":"google-signs-its-largest-offshore-wind-projects-to-power-data-centres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/google-signs-its-largest-offshore-wind-projects-to-power-data-centres","title":{"rendered":"Google signs its largest offshore wind projects to power data centres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-signs-its-largest-offshore-wind-projects-to-power-data-centres2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The mega tech company\u2019s ambition is to operate on carbon-free energy by 2030.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In its most substantial offshore wind project deal to date, <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/military\/ex-google-secret-startup-build-ukraine-ai-powered-drones\" title=\"Google\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Google<\/a> has signed power purchase agreements (PPAs) for over 700 megawatts of clean energy to power its European data centers.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s announcement is in line with its ambitious goal to achieve net-zero emissions across all of its operations and value chain by 2030, as per Google\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gstatic.com\/gumdrop\/sustainability\/google-2023-environmental-report.pdf\" title rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Environmental Report<\/a> published last year.<\/p>\n<p><b>Deals across Italy, Poland, Belgium and Netherlands<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In the Netherlands, the search engine behemoth will get electricity from two projects \u2014 Hollandse Kust North V and West VI \u2014 off the coast, which is expected to provide about six percent of the country\u2019s electricity consumption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mega tech company\u2019s ambition is to operate on carbon-free energy by 2030. In its most substantial offshore wind project deal to date, Google has signed power purchase agreements (PPAs) for over 700 megawatts of clean energy to power its European data centers. The company\u2019s announcement is in line with its ambitious goal to achieve [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182001","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}