Amazon will fight for the creation of "green Internet" Bashny.Net

Recently, the global IT giants are increasingly moving their data centers for regenerative energies. In its annual report on the state of the data center industry in terms of its impact on the environment, an international independent non-governmental environmental organization Greenpeace has published a ranking of the most "green" Internet companies: Apple, Google, Facebook. They "feed" their data centers with renewable energy sources.





The company Amazon, the largest provider of cloud-based services, competitors followed suit and made a commitment to move their computing power by 100% renewable energy. According to statement , on your site, Amazon has taken the 'long-term commitment "to use only renewable energy in its global infrastructure. The truth is no question of a temporary space when this obligation will come into force was not.



Even before IT analyst Gary Cook Greenpeace, said that from Amazon in priority achievement of efficiency, rather than the path towards full translation of their data centers with "dirty" electricity to green electricity. In the past, customers do not respond to the "dirty" data centers cloud giant, content low prices. Times are changing, and market cloud appeared price competition. On the part of the company's customers fell questions about the environmental impact of cloud services.

«Greening" cloud Amazon h4> «Amazon data centers consume huge amounts of electricity, and they grow incredibly fast, so these statements by the company can confidently be called promising," - said in a Greenpeace. But "green" is not yet fully satisfied this obligation. The organization has been in long-term "war" with the Amazon, alleging a lack of transparency in the policy of the IT giant. At the same time he criticized attempts to Amazon its competitors in the use of renewable energy sources.



"Companies will have to give more detailed information about its customers to get our confidence and prove that the obligations of the transition to environmentally friendly sources of energy production for their data centers are not just empty words - the organization said Greenpeace - they must provide a detailed implementation plan and achieve their ambitious goals and commitments ».



At the disposal of the company already has three carbon-neutral regions, two of which are located in the United States. In the autumn of this year, Amazon announced the commissioning of a second data center to support the AWS cloud platform in Europe . The new server farm is located in Frankfurt (Germany). The main feature of the new object - it should be the first carbon-neutral data center outside the US Amazon.

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