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Forward-thinking companies continually prioritize sustainability in business models. One such company is Google, which recently reached a goal they made on Twitter nearly a year ago: to be 100 percent powered by renewable energy. Google’s “electricity consumption is considerable, but...

From Amazon to Etsy and Microsoft, tech companies are demanding cheaper and cleaner electricity as their data demands grow. That runs counter to Trump-administration plans to keep coal plants afloat. Just ask Etsy, the go-to marketplace for crafts that doubled...

Apple’s data center in Denmark may soon have a new neighbor: Google. Reuters has reported that the search giant has purchased a plot of land adjacent to the plot that Apple intends to use for a data center. In July...

All energy, all the time. Depending on the day I might be negotiating a renewable energy contract, conducting a financial analysis of a transmission line or substation project for one of our data centers, or working with our finance...

The conservative city of Georgetown, Texas runs on renewable energy. After all, wind and solar power are more predictable and easier to budget than oil and gas. Clean power pushes may be associated with more left-leaning cities, but Republican...

Construction has begun on a wind farm that will supply 100 percent of the power required to operate a Facebook data center in Papillion, Nebraska. The Rattlesnake Creek wind farm in Dixon County, Nebraska, will have a capacity of 320...

Exxon's environmental history isn't exactly a green one. The massive oil company may have single-handedly "set back all of humanity," according to The Hill, and is known for having denied climate change for decades. It's been in multi-billion-dollar lawsuits...

One of the world’s biggest oil companies is pumping more than $1 billion a year into alternative forms of energy from algae engineered to bloom into biofuels and cells that turn emissions into electricity.The funds from Exxon Mobil Corp....