{"id":4219,"date":"2010-03-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www-prod.greenpeace.org\/usa\/campaign-updates\/4219\/how-dirty-is-your-data\/"},"modified":"2024-11-22T02:01:08","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T02:01:08","slug":"how-dirty-is-your-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/how-dirty-is-your-data\/","title":{"rendered":"How dirty is your data?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"p4descriptive_paragraph\">&#8220;How Dirty Is Your Data?&#8221; 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 greater transparency from global IT brands on the energy and carbon footprint of their Internet infrastructure.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large p4featured_image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/11\/02559534-how-dirty-report-cover.jpg\" alt=\"how-dirty-report-cover.jpg\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><!-- START DYNAMIC CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><!-- END DYNAMIC CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p>Information Technology (IT) is disruptive. 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