Clean Our Cloud Action in Seattle

Greenpeace activists hang a 800-square foot (74 square meter) cloud-shaped banner outside of Amazon.com's new headquarters, and across the street from Microsoft offices, reading "Amazon, Microsoft: How Clean is Your Cloud?" Greenpeace demands that the companies switch from coal to renewable energy sources to power their cloud computing data center.

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Type: Image

Shoot date: 19/04/2012

Locations: Seattle, United States of America, Washington (state)

Credit line: © Greenpeace

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Clean Our Cloud Action in Seattle

Greenpeace activists unfurl a banner near Amazon.com headquarters in Seattle reading "Clean Our Cloud" The current explosion in cloud computing offered by major IT companies is driving significant new demand for dirty energy like coal and nuclear power. A new report from Greenpeace International, “How Clean is Your Cloud?" shows a growing split within the tech industry between companies that are taking steps to power their clouds with clean energy, like Google, Yahoo and Facebook, and companies like Apple, Amazon and Microsoft who lag behind by choosing to build their growing fleets of data centres to be powered by coal and nuclear energy.

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