“Wind power in the North arouses Google’s interest”

Google plans to send a group of managers to the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein to assess the conditions for building a computing centre powered by wind energy, Kieler Nachrichten reports. “It is well known that Google is looking for new locations for computing centres in Europe,” Marcus Hrach, of the German Wind Energy Association (BWE), told the newspaper. Schleswig-Holstein’s state government explained thE US tech giant wanted to cover its energy demand completely by renewable power sources and was the biggest buyer of the technology worldwide. The German state had “a lot of expertise in the field of renewable energy – that falls into place”, a state official told Kieler Nachrichten.

Read the article in German here.

For the renewables’ share in German power consumption, see the CLEW factsheet Germany’s energy consumption and power mix in charts.