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Background | April 27, 2010 at 12:47

How dirty is your data?

Publication | April 20, 2011 at 22:11

"How Dirty Is Your Data?" is the first ever report on the energy choices made by IT companies including Akamai, Amazon.com (Amazon Web Services), Apple, Facebook, Google, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Twitter, and Yahoo, and highlights the need for...

In search of a greener cloud: Google vs. Microsoft

Feature story | October 10, 2012 at 20:38

Microsoft wants the world to think it has its groove back – that it’s moved beyond the ignominy of the Mac vs. PC Apple ads, Windows 95 and Clippy, the helpful mascot everyone loved so much. Microsoft is looking to the cloud to change its...

Google leads latest Greenpeace climate ranking of IT industry

Press release | February 8, 2012 at 7:30

Amsterdam, February 8th 2012 -- Greenpeace today released the 5th edition of its Cool IT Leaderboard (1), which sees Internet search engine giant Google overtaking on climate issues, followed by Cisco and Ericsson.

The iPad, internet, climate change link in the spotlight

Feature story | March 30, 2010 at 10:23

On the eve of the launch of the iPad, our latest report warns that the growth of internet computing could come with a huge jump in greenhouse gas emissions. We follow the data streams back to the data centres providing a cautionary tale about how...

New Greenpeace report digs up the dirt on Internet data centres

Feature story | April 21, 2011 at 9:26

For most of us, when we think about our environmental footprint, the first things that spring to mind are how to commute to work, the kind of bags we use for grocery shopping, or the detergents we wash our clothes with. But how often do we...

The Dirty Data timeline

Background | May 29, 2012 at 15:40

In 2009, Greenpeace launched it’s Cool IT campaign to urge the world’s largest IT companies to be true climate leaders by providing real climate solutions, supporting progressive climate policies and using more renewable energy. In May 2009 the...

Google, IBM and Microsoft with their heads in the clouds

Feature story | October 27, 2009 at 0:00

People could some day recall that it was the Information Technology (IT) industry's advocacy for strong action which tipped the balance at the Copenhagen climate summit. But that's not going to happen unless all of us press them to become climate...

Good news: Google comes clean on energy use

Blog entry by Tom Dowdall | September 8, 2011 5 comments

Today Google has finally released information on exactly how much energy it takes to provide searches, email, youtube videos and all other Google services. For years Google has claimed this information was a “trade secret”, despite...

IT firms see opportunity in averting climate crisis

Feature story | December 7, 2010 at 15:24

Google, Cisco and HP are some of the best-known brands in our updated Cool IT leaderboard. This year saw these companies and other top information technology (IT) firms side with the planet, many for the first time, in some of the most important...

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