Cloud Computing: Amazon and Google Change Places on Going Green

Grazed from ScientificAmerican.  Author: Joshua Learn.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.  One technology giant on the forefront of renewable energy implementation has come out on why it rolled back its research and development while another, which has been largely inactive on the sustainability front, has just announced a new goal of achieving 100 percent renewable energy use.

While Google Inc. engineers have finally spoken up this week in an article in IEEE Spectrum about the reasons the company has cut funding for the research and development of renewable energy, Amazon.com Inc.’s Web services division just announced "a long-term commitment" to achieving full reliability on renewable energy for its "global infrastructure footprint."…


"We’ve been evaluating these companies for a while, and [Google] has been the most consistent with putting their money where their mouth is," Gary Cook, senior information technology campaigner of Greenpeace, said in a phone interview. "Amazon has been seemingly frozen in time up until this week."…

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