Machine Learning At Google: The Amazing Use Case Of Becoming A Fully Sustainable Business

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. From the start, they have also made significant efforts to do this in a way that doesn't deplete the world's natural resources. The company has been fully carbon neutral since 2007 and ten years later they are hoping they have achieved the next major goal – drawing every watt of energy they use for their business operations from renewable sources. Kate E Brandt, their lead for sustainability, spoke to me about some of the ways they have been tackling this ambitious challenge while she was visiting London to speak at the Economist Sustainability Summit 2018. She told me "We set a goal in 2012 that we wanted to reach a point where 100% of the energy used for our operations was coming from renewables – so it's a longstanding commitment.