Google is opening a new campus that integrates environmental features to limit the company’s carbon footprint.
More tech companies are trying to mitigate their carbon footprints and show they’re environmentally aware.
Expect similar facilities that feature environmental design.
Apple is building one in Austin, Texas.
The Northern California site marks the first time the company has self-designed one of its facilities.
The geothermal system heats and cools the facility.
Google declined to comment.
Tech campuses also have sustainability in mind as companies market themselves in part by limiting carbon footprints.
Some critics have questioned how effective some of the techniquesmight begiven how much carbon humans produce.
The captured water will be used for cooling towers, flushing toilets and irrigation.
Google’s goal is to replenish 120% of water used by 2030.
The new campus borrows from the “biophilic design” philosophy behind Google’srecently opened Manhattan campus.
Google said every desk at Bay View will have a view of the outdoors.
The lower level of the campus serves as a gathering space for people to collaborate.
The upper level is designed to resemble “smaller neighborhoods” separated by courtyards.
