Greenpeace raids the cloud
Filed Under (Industry Biz News) by Admin on 30-03-2010
In late 2006, I wrote a post about the energy consumption of modern computing plants, in which I made a prediction: As soon as activists, and the public in general, begin to understand how much electricity is wasted by computing and communication systems – and the consequences of that waste for the environment and in particular global warming – they’ll begin demanding that the makers and users of information technology improve efficiency dramatically. Greenpeace and its rainbow warriors will soon storm the data center – your data center. Soon is now. Today, Greenpeace issued a report on “cloud computing and…
