20 years of wind energy for Google

Iowa and Google are joining forces to break into the alternative energy industry with a twenty-year contract with a wind farm.

To further be an advocate in alternative energy, Google has poured thirty-eight million in wind farms in the year 2010 alone. Mashable reports that Google has been able to "buy and sell electricity like any other public utility in February in order to achieve its goals for carbon neutrality..." everything regarded under alternative energy has been placed under the name of Google Energy. Google purchased twenty years worth of wind energy at a fixed rate, which will be provided by the NextEra Energy Resources Story County II facility. The amount they bought will be enough to supply electricity to several of Google's huge data centers. In turn of helping out Google, NextEra will recieve a steady capital to pursue their alternative energy aspirations and continue to push the wind farm agenda within the United States. Google is also testing out new methods of bringing high-speed internet across the nation with fiber optics, dubbed Google Fiber. The company boasts that their internet will be one-hundred times faster than the average internet connection already in the United States. Google intends to start mapping out the U.S. and begin their project later this year. They have also provided a website for communities who wish to support this endeavor at Google Fiber for Communities. Meanwhile, other technology giant Bill Gates is investing in green cars through the Detroit-based start-up known as EcoMotors. Earlier in the summer, Bill Gates urged fellow wealthy people to contribute to the world in a positive way by giving half of their net worth away to good causes.