covering the week's top tech stories with a slight linux bias google says it has wiped out its entire carbon footprint by investing in high quality carbon offsets it became carbon neutral in 2007 and says it now has compensated for all of the carbon it has ever created chief executive sundar pakai has also announced that they intend to run all of their data centers and offices on carbon free energy by twenty thirty they'll do things like pair wind and solar power sources together and increase the use of battery storage and bakai says they're working on ways to apply artificial intelligence to further optimize their electricity demand and forecasting while carbon neutrality demands a certain level of scrutiny the fact remains it is becoming fashionable for large companies to work towards sustainability reducing their own impact on the environment microsoft for example revealed plans to become carbon negative by 2030 back in january and both apple and amazon have plans to become carbon neutral in the next 10 to 20 years google's endeavor will also create around 12 000 jobs over the next five years [Music] you