The Googleplex
Monday, 17th December 2007 by James Turnbull
As part of the December 07 image update Google have updated their own headquarters in Mountain View, California.
Compared to the older imagery1 the most obvious difference is that the Googeplex has been absolutely covered in solar panels.
Installed in October 2006, the panels are the world's largest solar panel installation on a corporate campus in the United States! Er, hang on...
Still, Google should be commended for the project which generates 30% of their peak electricity requirements. Read more on the project's homepage, which also promises some live stats2.
And I bet those are some big electricity requirements!
A very nice iniciative from Google, didn’t know they had the plex full of solar panels. What’s next, a hydrogen filling station? 😉
The “world’s largest solar panel installation on a corporate campus in the United States” ? Doesn’t make much sense ?
@ Solafia: We often feature “world’s largest” things that, to prevent it being a lie, someone has had to tack a few extra disclaimers onto the end.
You could call it the larger than any other solar panel installation in the whole world, just as long as the other solar panel is on a corporate campus, and is located within the United States.