Google United States Texas wind power project investment of 200 million US dollars

On January 9, according to foreign media reports,mobile dvr Google announced Wednesday, invested 200 million dollars to buy a field named "Spinning Spur" share of the wind power project, this is the company in recent years and reached a significant renewable car dvr energy transactions.

Spinning Spur wind power project is located in United States, Texas, Oldham County (Oldham County), the total installed capacity of 161 MW, the power generated to meet the electricity needs of more than 60,000. The windvehicle dvr power project of 70 turbines wind power generator installation in windy area of the Strip, Texas, and at the end of 2012 to begin full power.

Google senior manager in charge of corporate finance keqiao·asalei (Kojo Ako-Asare) said in a blog post: "we look for Spinning Spur this kind of project, not only because they create more renewable energy and will help strengthen the local economy, and is a wise investment. ”

Asare said, mobile dvr wind power project will bring "an attractive risk-reward."

Google's massive data server enables the company's electricity costs staggering. Greenpeace estimates that Google 8 existing and planned data center running at full capacity, take 476 MW of electricity. These power sufficient to meet United States San Diego electricity needs of all families. Google has said that it does not consume so much power, because it's data center is never run at full capacity.

Spinning Spur wind power project is Google 10th of 2010 to investcar dvr in green energy projects. In these projects, Spinning Spur second-wind power project investment, followed by the company for solar panel manufacturers SolarCity nearly 280 million dollars of investment.

Google invested a total of 5 solar projects and 5 wind power project, a total investment of over $ 1 billion.