Apr 19
Google has serious power needs, and the company is looking to make sure its operations are as environmentally friendly as possible. The company has invested in solar power plants and green datacenters in the past, and even has massive arrays of solar panels on the buildings at its Mountain View, California headquarters. Now the company is investing over $100 million into what will be the world’s largest wind farm.
The Shepherds Flat Wind Farm, located in northern Oregon, will be completed in 2012 and pump out 845 megawatts of electricity. It’ll have 338 wind turbines, and employ 400 people, and be the first wind farm in the United States to use permanent magnet generators, which allow it to generate more electricity than wind farms with more turbines but pump out less power.
What Google plans to do with all of this investment in the energy sector is anyone’s guess, but if their public statements are any indication, they just want to be good corporate citizens. It’s also likely they’re looking to make sure they invest enough in renewable energy to offset their future plans for growth and energy demand.
[via Treehugger]
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