By Michael Graham Richard / Source: Treehugger

Wind-powered cloud services

When Greenpeace looked at how big internet companies were powering their online operations, they found that Amazon was basically bottom of the heap, with a large reliance on coal and natural gas, little transparency, and no commitment to move to clean energy.

You can see the how Amazon compares to other big online players here:

This public shaming of Amazon seems to have worked, because a few months later they announced “a long-term commitment to achieve 100% renewable energy usage for our global infrastructure footprint.” Certainly a step in the right direction, though definitely lacking on a solid timeframe, and extra transparency so that we can known where they are now, and track their progress in the future.

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