KIRKLAND, Wash. — Earlier this month, Google announced that it’s doubling the size of its Kirkland campus located on the outskirts of Seattle. The project would add two new buildings on a five-acre plot of land west of the existing campus and would create enough room to hire about 1,000 more employees.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google Inc. unplugged its Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal (RE<C) initiative, part of general cutbacks at the company.
The initiative, which was developed as an effort to drive down the cost of renewable energy, launched in 2007 through google.org, the company’s charitable arm. The initiative featured an RE<C engineering team focused on researching improvements to solar power.
