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....

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