Background & Goal

Google operates a global network of data centers and offices powering services such as YouTube, Google Cloud, and Google Maps. Since 2017, the company has matched 100% of its annual electricity consumption with renewable energy purchases and has set an ambitious goal of operating on 24/7 carbon-free energy (CFE) globally by 2030.


Google began working with Flexidao in 2021, piloting the software in three countries. Following the pilot’s success, the partnership has expanded globally to provide the oversight needed to plan, procure, and verify progress toward 24/7 CFE.

The Challenge

In order to reach its 24/7 CFE goal, Google needs to:

  1. Maintain a consolidated overview of global consumption sites, clean energy contracts, certificates, and related emissions.
  2. Automate secure, high-resolution (hourly) data collection from data centers and renewable PPAs across diverse markets.
  3. Standardize and validate heterogeneous energy data to ensure reliability for decision-making and reporting.
  4. Continuously assess hourly and location-specific coverage, identify gaps, and plan procurement actions accordingly.

With operations spanning regions, suppliers, and technologies, this represents a significant organizational and data-integration challenge.

The Solution

Flexidao’s platform gives Google a single, live view of how clean power lines up with demand across its operations. It ingests hourly data from data centers PPAs, standardizes it across markets, and links contracts, certificates (including T-EACs), and emissions—turning scattered inputs into decision-ready insight for 24/7 CFE.

This enables Google to:

  • Automate hourly data intake and validation
  • See portfolio, sites, contracts, metering, and certificates in one place
  • Pinpoint hourly coverage gaps by location and technology to steer procurement
  • Produce audit-ready reporting grounded in metering and certificate evidence

Results

Google now manages its clean energy portfolio in one place, with faster, more reliable inputs and a clear foundation for action. Flexidao provides three core capabilities that enable Google’s efficient, confident pursuit of its environmental goals:

Automation: Simplifying the recurring, resource-intensive task of high-resolution data collection and quality assurance.

Centralization: The tool consolidates Google’s renewable energy portfolio of contracts, metering data, and certificates into a unified platform.

Visibility: The platform offers better visibility into hours when Google relies on carbon-intensive electricity, a crucial factor for tracking T-EACs and achieving ambitious emission reduction goals.

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