Saturday, January 14, 2012

Through the unfriending coal victory, Facebook and Greenpeace might be able to send a message to other companies to become more environmentally friendly. Greenpeace has created a report called “How dirty is your data?” which is the first report ever made on energy choices of companies such as Akamai, Amazon.com (Amazon Web Services), Apple, Facebook, Google, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Twitter, and Yahoo. In the last decade, the Internet has become a way of life- its where we post pictures, send emails, read the news, and much more. All this information must go somewhere, the data centers which are full of computer servers. These servers are run on huge amounts of electricity- “if the Internet was a country, it would rank 5th for the amount of electricity usage”. The data centers are found all over the world and mostly use nuclear and coal as their source of energy. Below is a report card of the companies and how they rank on being “green”. Hopefully in the near future, they follow in Facebook’s steps and commit to 100% renewable energy.

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