Google is promising to run all of its data centres and campuses on carbon-free energy within a decade, as the tech giant makes plans to ditch fossil fuels and agree to a key demand from employees concerned about climate change. The company says it may relocate some data centres to reach the new goal of operating entirely on clean energy such as wind, solar, batteries and hydropower by 2030. Chief executive Sundar Pichai pointed to the wildfires raging across the west coast of the US, and said it was urgent for businesses to address climate change. The pledge to operate on carbon-free power will address one of four demands made by a group of thousands of Google employees concerned about climate change, who staged a walkout and wrote a letter to the chief financial officer last year. Google also announced that it had offset all historical carbon dioxide emissions since its founding in 1998.

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