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Greenpeace Issues Warning about Data Center Power

April 12, 2010 Electronics Cooling Data Centers, Industry Updates, News Data Center

Greenpeace is calling on technology giants like Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo and Facebook to power their data centers with renewable energy sources. Their electricity often comes from utility companies that generate power from burning coal, says the group. Greenpeace estimates that data centres will use 1,963 billion kilowatt hours of electricity by 2020. That is more than the power currently consumed by France, Germany, Canada and Brazil combined, says the campaigner.

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