Resources
Whitepapers + Studies
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Clean Cloud 2020: Tracking Renewable Energy Use in China’s Tech Industry, Greenpeace
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Beyond PUE: Tackling IT’s wasted terawatts, Uptime Institute
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Clicking Clean Virginia: The Dirty Energy Powering Data Center Alley, Greenpeace
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Data Centres and Data Transmission Networks, International Energy Agency
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Digitalisation and Energy, International Energy Agency
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Electricity Intensity of Internet Data Transmission: Untangling the Estimates, Joshua Aslan, Kieren Mayers, Jonathan G. Koomey, Chris France
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The State of Data Center Energy Use in 2018, Paul Johnston & Anne Currie
Articles
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How can data centers use 100% renewable electricity?, David Mytton
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Barriers for startups tackling data center energy consumption, David Mytton
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24/7 Renewables: The Emerging Art of Matching Renewables With Demand, Stephen Lacey
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Carbon proxies: measuring the greenness of your application, Asim Hussain
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How Green Is Your Software?, Sanjay Podder, Adam Burden, Shalabh Kumar Singh, and Regina Maruca
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Climate Change, and Seeing your Cloud Carbon Footprint, Paul Johnston
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Data Center Market Powers Up to Meet Cloud Demand, Angus Loten, The Wall Street Journal
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Energy Hogs: Can World’s Huge Data Centers Be Made More Efficient?, Fred Pearce, Yale School of the Environment
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How to stop data centres from gobbling up the world’s electricity, Nicola Jones, Nature Magazine
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Mostly Cloudy: Software should be more energy-efficient, and cloud providers can help, Angus Loten, Tom Krazit
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95% of global data center traffic will be from the cloud by 2021, Alison DeNisco Rayome
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The Internet Cloud Has a Dirty Secret, Naomi Xu Elegant, Fortune Magazine
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What do Climate Change, Data Centres and Cloud have to do with each other?, Paul Johnston
Company-Specific Statements + Articles
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DigiPlex plugs into district heating in Stockholm, Peter Judge
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Greener datacenters for a brighter future: Microsoft’s commitment to renewable energy, Brad Smith, Microsoft
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Google says it’s the biggest corporate buyer of renewable energy on the planet, Anmar Frangoul, CNBC
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Oregon Health & Science University licenses out data center dome, Max Smolaks
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Stripe’s first negative emissions purchases, Ryan Orbuch, Stripe
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Towards carbon negativity, Jane Yang, Basecamp
Petitions, Manifestos, Campaigns
Tools