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Greenpeace: How Green Is Your Cloud?


When you think of Rackspace or Dell, you think of super-smart people who are probably pretty Earth-friendly, too, right?

The smart part is on target, but the companies’ green sensibility — not so much. That’s the word from Greenpeace International, which has released a report, “How Green Is Your Cloud?” that includes a scorecard for companies that have built giant data centers to power their respective clouds.

Greenpeace notes that “most IT companies are rapidly expanding without considering how their choice of energy could impact society,” and they’re “attaching their modern information factories to some of the dirtiest sources of electricity, supplied by some of the dirtiest utilities on the planet.”

Greenpeace graded IT companies for energy transparency, where they site their data centers, how they reduce or mitigate greenhouse gases, and how they fare using renewable energy.

San Antonio’s Rackspace earned four grades of C, while Dell earned three Cs and a D.

And Greenpeace slammed Amazon, Apple and Microsoft, saying they’re expanding and relying heavily on “dirty energy” to power their clouds. Apple, for example, earned three Ds and an F.

- Vicki Vaughan

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Vicki Vaughan

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