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Google is working to achieve 24/7 carbon free energy at all of its datacenters in a continued effort to address climate change concerns. Its new carbon-intelligent computing platform will help Google match up its compute load with energy sources like wind and solar power, the tech giant said Wednesday.

To do this, it’s moved the timing of non-urgent tasks like YouTube video processing, adding new words to Google translate and creating new Google Photo filter features to when and and solar energy are most plentiful. It doesn’t affect more essential features like Google Maps, Search and YouTube,…