Global warming. Google is NOT part of the problem.

IN AN EMPTY CORNER of the Oklahoma Panhandle, between Arnett (population 511) and Vici (population 702), the future is being forged out of thin air. Rising some 300 feet from the sandy earth, the 93 turbines of the Great Western Wind Project pivot in the breeze, their blades spinning like the hands of a sped-up clock. “This is pretty much the middle of nowhere,” says Todd Unrein, the site manager, as he drives the dirt roads in a dusty Chevy.

Great Western has just one customer—Google—which buys every megawatt-hour the wind farm generates. As the world’s largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy, Google draws juice from an expanding constellation of clean-power producers, many in equally remote locales: Texas’ Llano Estacado, Chile’s Atacama Desert, the Swedish Lapland, the dikes and dams of the Dutch North Sea, the foothills of North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains. In all, Google has signed agreements with 20 wind and solar projects for more than 2.6 gigawatts, an effort that has allowed it to reach a milestone few companies have approached: As of 2017, Google is on track to purchase enough renewable energy to match 100 percent of its operational needs.

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