Google Green Campus: Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced the Bay View campus the next Moonshot.

Google's new moonshot idea is aiming to be the first major corporation to operate without emitting any pollutants 24x7. However, previous moonshot ideas, such as self-driving vehicles and vertical farms, have failed. Will the vision of a carbon-free campus be realized?

Google Bay View is Google's latest office campus. The new campus is located a few miles away from Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California. Google's new office building is unique in that it can operate around the clock without emitting greenhouse gases.

Google aspires to have a completely green campus. The Google Bay View Campus is described as "a campus that entirely eliminates the carbon that causes global warming." According to Covid guidelines, Google plans to launch its model campus in January with only a few people.

The Bay View campus comprises three buildings and is located near the San Francisco coast. The roofs of these structures are the first thing that visitors notice when they arrive at the site. Three structures were angled toward the ground in a tent-like configuration. The buildings' complete roof structures, which are fashioned like circus tents, are made up of a number of separate canopies that bend in two directions. This allows water to be drained across the roof and into designated catchment areas. The roof structure effectively conserves water for reuse. Apart from this, each roof is covered with solar panels. On the roof, 50,000 solar panels have been placed. The 'Dragon Scale' is the name given to this design by Google.

Picture of Bay View campus

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Without the use of natural gas, concrete pillars buried deep in the earth serve to keep heat within the structure. Google sees its newest facility as a representation of its long-held goal of operating carbon-free.

Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, revealed plans to run all of the company's offices and data centres on electricity generated from clean sources that do not pollute the atmosphere.  He has set a deadline of 2030 to implement the largest corporate project to carry out decarbonization.

Google's servers provide us with billions of web searches, emails, and mapping routes every day. Google's data centers, where these servers are located, use most of their power consumption. By 2020, Google data centres will have consumed 15.1 million megawatts of electricity.

In today's world, avoiding carbon is a major challenge. The fact that Google is aiming higher than most businesses and taking the appropriate measures for decarbonization is a great example. The fact that dozens of companies have pledged to reach carbon neutrality is also a very promising step.

The new campus represents Google's larger moonshot goal of being a carbon-free corporation. 

Google has been investing in far-fetched initiatives since 2010, including balloons that can broadcast the Internet to the whole world, solar-powered contact lenses, delivery drones, and self-driving automobiles. These inventions are nicknamed ‘moonshot’ by Google, a word it uses to describe bold initiatives that have a little chance of succeeding but will have a massive and global impact if they do.