Google intensions to become carbon neutral at similar time support green energy by entering into a 20-year agreement to purchase power from an Iowa wind farm. The farm, part of NextEra Energy Resources in Story and Hardin counties, will sell Google 114 megawatts of renewable power. Google says that energy it will purchase is sufficient to power some of its data centers.

Google reported on its blog that it has long been trying to support green energy and has vowed to become carbon neutral. In fact, Google will not straight power its server farms with NextEra Energy. The budge is a proposal to enhance renewable energy and secure NextEra Energy's future by helping it grow, Google says. The wind energy Google purchases, it clarifies, will be sold back. That in turn decreases by 114 megawatts the amount of non-renewable energy produced to keep the regional power grid.

NextEra Energy Resources is on 700 wind turbines in utilizing Iowa capable of serving a standard of 250,000 houses. It has 9000 turbines in 17 states plus Canada. However a wind farm is just one of lots of Google's strange investments.

Google has expend over US$10 million on three projects to advance Enhanced Geothermal Systems plus harness energy below earth's surface $4 million to Potter Drilling, $6.25 to Alta Rock Energy, Inc. and one more $489,521 to Southern Methodist University Geothermal Lab for improving geothermal resource appraisal techniques and updating geothermal mapping in North America.