Google is committed in using only renewable clean energy for all its operation. Today the company announces its largest, and most diverse, purchase of renewable energy ever made by a non-utility company. Already purchased more renewable energy than any other company, through a series of new wind and solar projects around the world, Google is inching closer in tripling its renewable energy purchase by 2050.

The latest agreements will add an additional 842 megawatts of renewable energy capacity to power its data centers. Purchased across three countries, the company has nearly doubled the amount of renewable energy purchased to date. Currently up to 2 gigawatt an equivalent to taking nearly 1 million cars off the road.

The additional 842 megawatts comes from a wind farm in Sweden to a solar plant in Chile with long term contracts that range from 10-20 years and provide projects with the financial certainty and scale necessary to build these wind and solar facilities  providing energy onto the grid in these regions. Its a win win as these contracts not only help minimize the environmental impact the data centres—they also make good business sense by ensuring good prices.

Google has been advocating on sustainability ever since the first owned data centre was opened in 2006 and already have committed in large scale projects on renewable energy. Like a wind farm in Iowa and building its newest data centre on a retiring coal plant which will 100% renewable powered fro day one. News world leaders will be happy to hear at the Climate Change Conference.