The Cost of Data

Resources

Whitepapers + Studies

• Clean Cloud 2020: Tracking Renewable Energy Use in China’s Tech Industry, Greenpeace
• Clicking Clean Virginia: The Dirty Energy Powering Data Center Alley, Greenpeace
• Data Centres and Data Transmission Networks, International Energy Agency
• Digitalisation and Energy, International Energy Agency
• Electricity Intensity of Internet Data Transmission: Untangling the Estimates, Joshua Aslan, Kieren Mayers, Jonathan G. Koomey, Chris France
• The State of Data Center Energy Use in 2018, Paul Johnston & Anne Currie

Articles

• Climate Change, and Seeing your Cloud Carbon Footprint, Paul Johnston
• Data Center Market Powers Up to Meet Cloud Demand, Angus Loten, The Wall Street Journal
• Energy Hogs: Can World’s Huge Data Centers Be Made More Efficient?, Fred Pearce, Yale School of the Environment
• How to stop data centres from gobbling up the world’s electricity, Nicola Jones, Nature Magazine
• Mostly Cloudy: Software should be more energy-efficient, and cloud providers can help, Angus Loten, Tom Krazit
• 95% of global data center traffic will be from the cloud by 2021, Alison DeNisco Rayome
• The Internet Cloud Has a Dirty Secret, Naomi Xu Elegant, Fortune Magazine
• What do Climate Change, Data Centres and Cloud have to do with each other?, Paul Johnston

Company-Specific Statements + Articles

• DigiPlex plugs into district heating in Stockholm, Peter Judge
• Greener datacenters for a brighter future: Microsoft’s commitment to renewable energy, Brad Smith, Microsoft
• Google says it’s the biggest corporate buyer of renewable energy on the planet, Anmar Frangoul, CNBC
• Oregon Health & Science University licenses out data center dome, Max Smolaks
• Stripe’s first negative emissions purchases, Ryan Orbuch, Stripe
• Towards carbon negativity, Jane Yang, Basecamp

Petitions

• Sustainable Servers by 2024 Petition, Coed:Ethics, Change.org