Source: Google
Teaching old buildings new tricks
Various locations, United States, Ireland & Finland
In pursuit of our goal to hit net-zero emissions across our operations and value chain by 2030, we’ve invested in “adaptive reuse projects,” where we renovate existing buildings rather than rely on solely new construction. One of those is our office in Dublin, Ireland, which is a 150-year-old former Flour Mills building at Boland Mills. Other examples of adaptive reuse office projects include Playa Vista, formerly an aircraft hangar; and Pittsburgh and New York City’s Chelsea Market buildings, both formerly Nabisco factories. (In fact, the factory in Chelsea Market is where the Oreo cookie was invented!) We’ve also repurposed various Google data centers from already existing structures, including a paper mill in Finland and a coal mine in Alabama.