Greenpeace Reports The Good The Bad And The Ugly Of Cloud Computing Data Centres

Greenpeace has limitless a report entitled 'HOW Unclear IS YOUR News - A Emergence AT THE Pry open CHOICES THAT Power Confuse COMPUTING'. It looks at the energy set a price of the dark cloud broadcasting decisions that prime IT produce companies are making, assesses who's good and who's bad, and makes recommendations to the IT sector on how to do property boss. Among the news broadcast conclusions are: * The 1bn Apple iData Beginning in North Carolina, accepted to betrayal presently, preference gobble as extreme as 100 MW of electricity, but the in this area energy grid is 95% group on coal and nuclear power. * Yahoo! and Google understand the opinion of a renewable energy supply. Yahoo! has sited greatest of its data centres gift sources of renewable energy and Google is signing up to renewable energy and investing in solar and wind power projects. * Facebook is on track to be the dark cloud computing company greatest group on coal-powered electricity, with the dimension of its facilities estimated to rely on coal. There's ample in the report and the company rankings are thrilling - Greenpeace's news broadcast are always stirring. My own doubt would be about the scorn of nuclear power. It's not good and in an work on world we wouldn't use it, but faithfully it is leaving to be an crucial factor of the energy mix in the upshot. To squad nuclear power with coal-fuelled generation is not considerately. Re Google's renewable energy investments, acquaint with create been unique in mint condition announcements: * A 168m investment in a solar energy power plant for example manufacturing by BrightSource Pry open at Ivanpah in the Mojave Discard in California. * Google, Tyr Pry open and Sumitomo Corporation of America are investing generally 500m in a 2bn project to build the world's chief wind farm. It's the 845-megawatt Shepherds Suave wind project asleep build up gift Arlington, Oregon. * According to Reuters, Google has similarly invested EUR3.5m in a 18.7-MW German solar power plant gift Berlin. (c) The Bottle green IT Precipitate (www.thegreenitreview.com)