Google wants to sell Maps data sets to various companies to use as they develop renewable energy products, with the hopes of generating $100 million in the first year, CNBCIt will sell access to new application programming interfaces with solar and energy information and air quality data.
Some of this data comes from Google solar savings calculator Project Sunroof. Its new dataset of 350 million buildings is a significant increase from the 60 million it cited for Project Sunroof in 2017. Citing an internal Google document, CNBC reported that the company estimates its APIs will generate $90 million to $100 million in its first year.