# Google has a big goal for 2017: all the energy used for its operations around the world, from offices to data centers, will come solely from renewable sources. A 100% "green" Google, therefore. The company announced that the goal will be reached next year: “La fight against climate change it is an increasingly urgent global priority.”
Google was one of the first companies to create, on a large scale, long-term contracts for the purchase of renewable energy, as explained by Urs Holzle, Google's senior vice president of technical infrastructure. The first agreement to purchase renewable energy dates back to 2010, from a wind farm in Iowa, United States. Today Google can boast of being the largest corporate buyer in the world of renewable energy, with commitments reaching 2,6 gigawatts of wind and solar energy. “This is larger than many large utilities and more than double the 1.21 Gigawatts it took to send Marty McFly in the future”, joke the company.
Every year, users make trillions of searches on Google's search engine, and upload over 400 hours of videos to YouTube every minute. All this, obviously, requires Big G to have an enormous amount of energy, which from now on will be totally renewable.
A great goal for Google, which will perhaps also spur all the other big companies in the world.
