TIL Desk/Business/New Delhi/ Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Monday declared that the company has eliminated its entire carbon legacy — covering all its operational emissions before it became carbon neutral in 2007 — through the purchase of high-quality carbon offsets. It means that Google’s lifetime net carbon footprint is now zero.
“We’re pleased to be the first major company to get this done, today,” Pichai said in a blog post. The company now aims to only use carbon-free energy to run its data centers, campuses and businesses worldwide at all times by 2030. Google was the first major company to become carbon neutral in 2007.
“We were the first major company to match our energy use with 100 per cent renewable energy in 2017. We operate the cleanest global cloud in the industry, and we’re the world’s largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy,” Pichai informed.
