Here's how Google powers its 'monopoly' with enough electricity for entire countries:
, I estimated that at the end of 2018, the Giant Five owned or had contracted for, more than 10,000 megawatts of conventional and renewable generation capacity. That means that the five companies own more electric generation capacity than the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. To burnish their “green” credentials, the Giant Five are also making significant renewable-energy purchases.
. And the company claims that it “matches” all of its electricity use with equivalent amounts of renewables. To see how this works in practice, consider the company’s huge data center in Pryor, Oklahoma. Back in 2011, Google announced it was going to buy electricity , Oklahoma so it could, “power our operations with clean electricity.” But the electricity that powers Google’s data center in Pryor is delivered by wires owned by the Grand River Dam Authority.
runs more than 60 pages. Between 2015 and 2018, Google’s electricity use grew by an average of about 23 percent per year. At that rate, its consumption will double in a little more than three years. The company hasn’t published its electricity use figures for last year, but given its average growth of 23 percent per year, I estimate that the company used about 12.4 terawatt-hours of juice in 2019. ... [+]Graphic by Robert Bryce, based on Google environment reports and CIA World Facebook.
Thus, by itself, Google uses more electricity than what’s consumed in more than 100 countries, including Sri Lanka and Zambia, and nearly as much as what’s used in places like Burma and the Dominican Republic. It also uses more juice than seven states—Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Maine—as well as the District of Columbia. Of those places, Maine comes closest to Google’s hunger for electricity.
While Google uses a lot of electricity now, there’s little doubt that it will use even more in the years ahead. Last year, the company announced some $13 billion in new investments in the United States,
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