{"id":6986,"date":"2012-04-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.p4.greenpeace.org\/post\/how-clean-is-your-cloud\/"},"modified":"2019-11-06T09:50:02","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T08:50:02","slug":"how-clean-is-your-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/publication\/6986\/how-clean-is-your-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"How Clean is Your Cloud?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How much energy is required to power the ever-expanding online world? What percentage of global greenhouse gas emissions is attributable to the IT sector? This report takes a look at the energy choices some of the largest and fastest growing IT companies are making, as the race to build &#8220;the cloud&#8221; creates a new era of technology.<\/p>\n<p>As one of the fastest growing sectors, both economically and in their energy consumption, global IT companies and cloud computing companies have a tremendous opportunity and unique responsibility to take greater control of their electricity supply chain, and to manage their energy ecosystem both outside and inside the data centre.<\/p>\n<p>By making better energy choices and demanding more from utility vendors, cloud companies have the opportunity to be a catalyst in driving utilities and governments toward the development of cleaner electricity generation that will ensure a truly green cloud for their long-term sustainability \u2013 and a greener grid for us all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-international-stateless\/2012\/04\/e7c8ff21-howcleanisyourcloud.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How Clean is Your Cloud?[PDF] <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How much energy is required to power the ever-expanding online world? What percentage of global greenhouse gas emissions is attributable to the IT sector? This report takes a look at the energy choices some of the largest and fastest growing IT companies are making, as the race to build &#8220;the cloud&#8221; creates a new era of technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":10378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_planet4_optimize_post_is_variant":false,"_planet4_optimize_experiment_name":"","_planet4_optimize_variant_name":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[69,73],"tags":[65,67,89,91],"p4-page-type":[62],"class_list":["post-6986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","category-social-and-economic-systems","tag-energy-revolution","tag-consumption","tag-climate","tag-health","p4-page-type-publication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6986"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26294,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6986\/revisions\/26294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6986"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=6986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}