Tag: Sustainability

Data Analytics Earth Engine Official Blog Sustainability April 14, 2025

Power up your BigQuery analysis with Google's new geospatial datasets - Google Cloud has introduced new geospatial analytics datasets and capabilities from Earth Engine and Google Maps Platform, integrated directly into BigQuery. These capabilities enable users to access fresh, comprehensive, and global geospatial data within the familiar BigQuery platform, simplifying data discovery, integration, and analysis.

Official Blog Sustainability March 24, 2025

Harvesting hardware: Our approach to carbon-aware fleet deployment - Google's hardware harvesting program prioritizes the reuse of existing hardware when deploying new machines or components, reducing carbon emissions, conserving resources, and minimizing waste. By reusing over 293,000 components in 2024, the program saved carbon emissions and reduced costs.

Official Blog Sustainability March 17, 2025

How Google Cloud measures its climate impact through Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) - Google Cloud uses Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to measure its climate impact. LCA evaluates the environmental impact of a product or service throughout its entire life cycle, from raw material extraction to end-of-life treatment.

Official Blog Sustainability Feb. 10, 2025

Designing sustainable AI: A deep dive into TPU efficiency and lifecycle emissions - Google's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) have improved the carbon efficiency of AI workloads by 3x over four years, from TPU v4 to Trillium. The study found that operational electricity emissions comprise over 70% of a Google TPU's lifetime emissions, emphasizing the importance of energy-efficient AI chips and carbon-free electricity.

Earth Engine Official Blog Sustainability Dec. 16, 2024

Looking back on a year of deeper connectivity across Earth Engine and Cloud - In 2024, Google Earth Engine made significant advancements in platform management, cloud integration, and core functionality. New features include a centralized Overview page in the Cloud Console, improved Vertex AI integration, support for VPC Service Controls, and performance enhancements for zonal statistics exports and Python v1. These updates enable users to leverage advanced tools, stronger security, and seamless integrations to improve sustainability and climate resilience.

Official Blog Sustainability Nov. 18, 2024

How cloud and AI are bringing scale to corporate climate mitigation and adaptation - Cloud and AI technologies offer the potential to unlock climate change solutions that can be both transformational and global in scale. Businesses are using AI to measure business performance, optimize operations and supply chains, identify cleaner business models, and build more sustainably. Google Cloud is committed to helping organizations of all sizes achieve their sustainability goals, with cloud, data analytics, and AI.

Sustainability Nov. 11, 2024

Counting the cost of carbon in the cloud - Lack of transparent data makes cloud service providers’ green claims hard to measure; we should demand more, writes MPB’s Neil Haffenden.

Official Blog Startups Sustainability Sept. 23, 2024

Meet the second Google for Startups Accelerator: Climate Change Cohort in Europe - Google for Startups Accelerator in Europe: Climate Change Cohort announced, empowering startups leveraging technology to combat climate change.

Infrastructure Official Blog Sustainability May 27, 2024

Our clean energy progress in Japan - Google has announced two new solar power purchase agreements in Japan, bringing the company closer to its goal of running on 24/7 carbon-free energy on every grid where it operates by 2030. These agreements will add a combined 60 megawatts of new solar energy capacity to the Japanese grid, supporting Google's data centers in the region and aligning with Japan's clean energy ambitions. The projects are expected to be fully operational within four years and underscore Google's commitment to invest nearly $690 million into sustainable infrastructure in Japan.

Official Blog Sustainability April 1, 2024

1.5 gigawatts later, our smarter way of buying clean energy is here to stay

Earth Engine Official Blog Sustainability Feb. 11, 2024

8 new ways to bridge the gap to geospatial analysis with Earth Engine - Improvements and integrations released in the past few months to make it easier to use Earth Engine.

Official Blog Sustainability Dec. 18, 2023

Reflections from COP28: To drive meaningful climate solutions, it’s all tech on deck - A summary of topics covered during COP28 conference.

Official Blog Sustainability Dec. 18, 2023

Climate as a software product KPI

Infrastructure Official Blog Sustainability Dec. 18, 2023

How Google Cloud is helping companies decarbonize their cloud footprints

Networking Official Blog Sustainability Oct. 23, 2023

How we’ll build sustainable, scalable, secure infrastructure for an AI-driven future

Infrastructure Official Blog Sustainability Oct. 9, 2023

Supporting power grids with demand response at Google data centers - Google is expanding our use of demand response technology to temporarily reduce power consumption at our data centers to help local grids as needed.

Official Blog Sustainability Sept. 4, 2023

Accelerating sustainability with cloud AI - At Google Cloud Next, we expanded our suite of AI-powered solutions to help customers sustainably measure, optimize, and transform their operations.

Google Maps Platform Official Blog Sustainability Sept. 4, 2023

Announcing the Pollen API: Providing actionable info about airborne pollen levels worldwide - Today we’re announcing our new Pollen API so businesses can share this relevant information with their users to help increase brand loyalty and engagement.

Google Maps Platform Official Blog Sustainability Sept. 4, 2023

Powering the future with our new Solar API - Today we launched our Solar API, within a new suite of environment APIs from Google Maps Platform. The Solar API surfaces important building, rooftop, shading, and panel configuration data covering over 320 million buildings in 40 countries, with the goal of helping accelerate the transition to clean, renewable, solar energy.

Google Maps Platform Official Blog Sustainability Sept. 4, 2023

Introducing the Air Quality API: Promoting resilience to a changing climate - Today we announced the general availability of our Air Quality API, as part of a new suite of environment APIs available from Google Maps Platform. The Air Quality API gives you access to robust and reliable air quality data, lets you visualize pollution via heatmaps, and lets you share in-depth pollutant details and recommendations.

Google Maps Platform Official Blog Sustainability Sept. 4, 2023

Going beyond the map: Introducing Environment APIs - Today at Google Cloud Next, we introduced a new suite of Environment APIs: Solar, Air Quality, and Pollen. These APIs help developers better understand an ever-changing world so they can create new sustainability tools, share actionable insights, and encourage people to adapt to new environmental realities.

Data Analytics Official Blog Partners Sustainability Aug. 28, 2023

Built with BigQuery: Sustainable supply chains start with a data sharing ecosystem - TraceMark’s sustainable sourcing monitoring platform provides transparency into global supply chains about the sourcing of raw materials.

BigQuery Earth Engine Official Blog Sustainability Aug. 28, 2023

Improving sustainability with our Earth Engine and BigQuery connector - The new BigQuery connector to Google Earth Engine improves ease-of-use and enables new analyses that combine raster and tabular data.

Official Blog Sustainability Aug. 14, 2023

How to sustainably transform while minimizing risk - Sustainable transformation means adapting to the global community landscape, sustainable product design, and mitigating physical climate risk.