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Google to shift computing workloads towards greener data centres
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Mobile compute workloads to follow the availability of renewable power around the globe based on real-time data, tech giant announces
Google is planning to use its Carbon-Intelligent Computing Platform to shift movable computing workloads to different data centres based on the availability of renewable energy, it announced this week.
In a blog post published on Tuesday, co-founder of Google s Carbon-Intelligent Computing project Ross Koningstein, said the tech giant is currently working on the plan as part of its efforts to completely decarbonise its electricity use by 2030.
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Its “carbon-intelligent computing platform” will process one-third of Google’s non-production workloads next year.
Google is gearing up to deploy technology it’s developed for shifting workloads from data center to data center based on availability of renewable energy.
The company plans to start using the new platform next year for more than one third of its non-production workloads, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said during Tuesday’s livestreamed Google IO Keynote. It will start with media processing workloads, such as encoding and analyzing videos uploaded to YouTube or images uploaded to Google Photos and Drive.
Last April Google announced that it developed a “carbon-intelligent computing platform” that would schedule non-urgent workloads within each data center to run when that data center is getting the most renewable energy. It said at the time that the next phase for the platform would be to move workloads between data centers.