Greenpeace takes a bite out of Apple's dirty datacentres

BusinessGreen: Greenpeace has warned a number of cloud computing providers, including Apple, Amazon and Microsoft, about the damaging affects their datacentres are having on the environment. In a new report, entitled "How Clean is Your Cloud", Greenpeace said there is a split in the technology industry between companies that are taking steps to power their clouds with clean energy, such as Google, Yahoo and Facebook, and those whose datacentres run on so-called "dirty energy" like coal and nuclear power. "When...

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