Google: Carbon Neutral since 2007

“We started the process of getting to zero by making sure our operations use as little energy as possible. For the last decade, energy use has been an obsession. We’ve designed and built some of the most efficient servers and data centers in the world—using half the electricity of a typical data center,”
said Urs Hoelzle, Senior Vice President. Hoelzle also noted a recent achievement at a new facility in Hamina, Finland where energy use was slashed by using a technologically advanced seawater cooling system. The company notes that your life on Google uses less energy in a month than leaving a lightbulb on for three hours. That’s pretty impressive when you think of the services they offer — Search, Gmail, YouTube, Google+, Blogger, etc. Four years of carbon neutrality for one of the world’s largest companies — 92nd on the Fortune 500 list — is a big achievement.