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Re:Image GPT by tinco on Thursday June 18, 2020 @06:13PM (#23568722)
I appreciate them buying credits, but as nice as those windmills and solar panels are, when the sun doesn't shine, and the wind doesn't blow, what gets burned is coal. Anyway I suppose that's more a policy issue of The Netherlands, I think it's quite shameful we still have coal plants. Those credits hide the real cost of renewable energy.
Re:Image GPT by nl on Friday June 19, 2020 @09:05AM (#23574095)
I'm not sure - they say the data center is "the first Google datacenter to be powered by 100% renewable energy from day one."

https://www.blog.google/around-the-globe/google-europe/dutch...

And they seem pretty serious about removing non-renewables altogether.

https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-sustainability.appspot.c...