Apple named 'least green' tech company. Apple has come bottom of the most comprehensive green league table of technology companies because of its heavy reliance on "dirty data" centres.
The list, which is compiled by Greenpeace and released in San Francisco on Thursday, shows that the company relies heavily on highly polluting coal power at the sites that house its banks of servers. Greenpeace's report, How Dirty is Your Data? Reveals that the company's investment in a new North Carolina facility will triple its electricity consumption, equivalent to the electricity demand of 80,000 average US homes. The facility's power will be supplied by Duke Energy, with a mix of 62% coal and 32% nuclear. On Wednesday, Apple posted a large boost in quarterly earnings, which grew by 95% to $6bn (£3.65bn). Gary Cook, Greenpeace's IT policy analyst and lead author of the report, said: "Consumers want to know that when they upload a video or change their Facebook status that they are not contributing to global warming or future Fukushimas.
" Greenpeace: Apple's Power 'Dirty, Dangerous' An aerial view of the new Apple data center in Maiden, North Carolina.
The environmental group Greenpeace has identified Apple as the leading offender in using energy from “dirty” sources to power its data centers, including coal and nuclear power. The group’s finding relies almost entirely on the impact of the company’s huge new data center in Maiden, North Carolina. “The $1 Billion Apple iData Center in North Carolina, expected to open this spring, will consume as much as 100 MW of electricity, equivalent to the electricity usage of approximately 80,000 homes in the U.S. or over a quarter million in the E.U.,” Greenpeace writes in a report released Thursday and timed to Earth Day. “The surrounding energy grid has less than 5 percent clean energy, with the remaining 95 percent coming from dirty, dangerous sources like coal and nuclear.”
Apple Mum on Power Usage The problem: It’s not clear that Apple has even begun operating its North Carolina facility. Greenpeace: Apple has the dirtiest data. Data centers like Apple's 500,000-square-foot facility being built in North Carolina burn tons of energy, Greenpeace says.
Greenpeace report says Apple's data storage is environmentally unfriendly Yahoo! , Google scored higher for practices like wind and solar power Report: Apple facility in North Carolina will consume as much energy as 80,000 U.S. homes (CNN) -- Sure, most of us consider the environmental impact our recycling habits or car's gas mileage may have. But what about our text messages and status updates? The energy that technology companies use storing and transmitting our data is becoming more of an environmental risk, according to a report from environmental group Greenpeace. And according to the report, which was timed to coincide with Earth Day, Apple has some of the dirtiest data of all. "How Dirty Is Your Data? " If the Internet was a country, it would rank fifth in the amount of energy consumed, just behind Japan and Russia, according to the report.
Yahoo! Apple, la pomme empoisonnée. Tongxin, petite bourgade située dans la zone industrielle de Kunshan, à une soixantaine de kilomètres de Shanghai, a le malheur de se trouver à un jet de pierre des usines de deux sous-traitants d’Apple, Unimicron Electronics et Kaedar Electronics.
Ces vastes entreprises de plusieurs milliers d’ouvriers chacune produisent les coques des ordinateurs Apple en usant de produits toxiques qui sont en partie rejetés dans l’eau et dans l’air. Un immonde ruisseau noir comme l’encre sépare Tongxin des murs immaculés des bâtiments ultramodernes de Kaedar. «On peut utiliser l’eau du puits pour laver le linge, mais elle est trop polluée pour la consommation» , dit madame Zhang, une habitante, en posant sur la margelle un seau qu’elle vient de tirer. Elle désigne du menton un évier dans la cour de sa maison : «On prend l’eau de ce robinet pour faire la cuisine, mais je ne sais pas si elle est plus propre.» Cette partie de Kunshan était autrefois une rizière. Pénalités clémentes Odeur d’éther.