Apple’s environmental credentials have again been called into question after the company was listed by Greenpeace as the least environmentally-friendly cloud computing businesses.
In a report entitled ‘How Dirty is your Data?’, Greenpeace listed major Internet businesses which rely on data centres to provide cloud computing services. Firms such as Akami, Amazon, Facebook, and Google were ranked according to the amount of energy their data centres consume and the proportion of that consumption which is generated from coal and nuclear sources.
