Apple has least green data centres, Greenpeace says

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Apple has least green data centres, Greenpeace says

Greenpeace has released its How Dirty is Your Data report, looking at global cloud companies’ energy footprint, with Apple coming out lowest in its clean-energy index due to its reliance on coal to power its data centres.

In its report, Greenpeace looked at what it calls IT’s biggest disruption – cloud computing – and analysed the data centre investments of 10 top global cloud companies: Akamai, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Twitter and Yahoo!

While Apple topped the league for its reliance on coal power (54.5pc), it was closely followed by Facebook at 53.2pc and IBM at 51.6pc. Next in line was HP at 49.4pc, followed by Twitter at 42.5pc, Google at 34.7pc, Microsoft at 34.1pc, Amazon at 28.5pc and Yahoo! at 18.3pc.

Greenpeace says Apple's US$1bn Apple iData Center in North Carolina, which is expected to open this spring, will consume as much as 100MW of electricity, the equivalent to the electricity usage of about 80,000 homes in the US or more than a quarter million in the EU.

http://www.siliconrepublic.com/green-tech/item/21492-apple-has-least-green-data/