Google Executive Says ‘Moonshot’ Clean Energy Goal Is Intact

A senior executive at Alphabet Inc.’s Google said the company isn’t abandoning plans to run its business on 24/7 carbon-free energy by 2030, even as the buildout of data centers for AI raises questions about the feasibility of such a goal.

Ben King, Google’s country managing director for Singapore and Malaysia, said the so-called hourly matching goal — whereby electricity consumption is backed by clean energy every hour of every day, in all regions in which the company operates — “remains” in place, in response to questions at a conference in Singapore on Tuesday.

The extent to which ...