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March 16, 2012

Can Data Centers Make the Grid Greener?

Rich Miller, Data Center Knowledge


Data Center Knowledge

NEW YORK - Can the combined purchasing power of the data center industry make renewable energy more accessible? Joe Kava believes that it can. Kava, who heads that data center team at Google, said Tuesday that the company’s power purchasing agreements will add more than 200 megawatts of wind power to the local utility grids that support its data centers.

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