Today, Google announced its next set of sustainability commitments as part of our third decade of climate action, which includes the following:
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Google is eliminating our entire carbon legacy, effective today (covering all our operational emissions before we became carbon neutral in 2007).
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Google is the first major company to make a commitment to operate on 24/7 carbon-free energy in all our data centers and campuses worldwide. This is far more challenging than the traditional approach of matching energy usage with renewable energy, but we’re working to get this done by 2030.
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We’re investing in technologies to help our partners and people all over the world make sustainable choices. For example, we are investing in manufacturing regions to enable 5GW of new carbon-free energy, helping 500 cities reduce their carbon emissions and finding new ways to empower 1 billion people through our products.
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We estimate that the commitments we’re making today will directly generate more than 20,000 new jobs in clean energy and associated industries, around the world, by 2025.
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All of our data centers will operate on clean energy, every hour and everywhere by 2030; Google Cloud will offer solutions to implement AI and ML efficiency in large buildings; and we will enable our customers with tools to help them measure, monitor or control their own carbon impact.
Read our blogpost from CEO Sundar Pichai, as well as our Geo blog and Cloud blog.
