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by Celia Guimaraes New York 13 May 2015 If digital infrastructures were a state, they would be the sixth largest consumer of energy in the world. This is why Greenpeace monitors the choices made by the main operators in the sector and updates its report on the 'green footprint', the green footprint known as the tech company, every year.

The good news is that some of the largest technology companies make significant progress to power their infrastructure and network only from renewable energy sources. Some others, however, for Greenpeace lack transparency.

The data is contained in the report "Clicking Clean: A Guide to Building the Green Internet", recently updated, in which companies like Apple, Yahoo, Facebook and Google have been promoted (with very different values) while others, like Amazon, have been rejected.

The "determined" apple
Also this year, in the ranking compiled by Greenpeace, Apple is the only company to obtain 100% clean energy from its data centers (no one else approaches). Among the other companies examined, Apple remains the most determined in its commitment to supply its data centers with renewable energy. Thanks to the investments of the past years and those planned for the near future (including an agreement of 850 million dollars to feed its activities in California and important investments in Europe), Apple seems to be able to reach the goal of feeding the own cloud for another year with 100% renewable energy. Followed by Yahoo (73%), Facebook (49%) and Google (46%), in the classification of energy produced from renewable sources.



The non virtuous
According to the environmental organization, the road to a 100% renewable network is however hampered by the opposition of some important companies and by the growing demand for energy in the sector.

"To power the internet, hi-tech companies are moving towards the most intelligent choice: renewable sources," says Luca Iacoboni, head of the Energy and Climate campaign of Greenpeace Italy. "But they clash with the
resistance of some companies operating in a monopoly regime in key locations for this sector - such as Taiwan, or Virginia and North Carolina in the US - and who refuse to switch to renewable sources ".

Amazon, "not very transparent"
The e-commerce giant Amazon, which is expanding in the US state of Virginia, would be 23% of energy produced from renewable sources and according to Luca Iacoboni, "it must provide more information on the energy footprint of its data centers,
clarifying how it intends to reach the 100% renewable target ".