Summary

Thanks to a strong brand among consumers and businesses, Microsoft cloud offerings are booming, and its cloud infrastructure investments have soared accordingly. However, Microsoft has plans to power a new data center with dirty energy.

The world’s largest online retailer launched Amazon Web Services (AWS) a few years ago, and has recently made massive investments in data center infrastructure. But the company is disturbingly quiet about the environmental impact of its data centres.

With a globally ubiquitous brand and seemingly endless innovation streak, Apple is inarguably one of the planet’s most commanding IT companies. Unfortunately, dirty coal is overwhelmingly meeting Apple’s data center energy demands.