Twitter Using Too Much Dirty Energy, Amongst Web's Worst Offenders, Says Greenpeace
A new report unveiled today by Greenpeace at the Green:Net conference in San Francisco has looked at how ten of the internet’s most recognisable brands have adapted to the use of clean power for their web services, and found most of them failing dismally.
The 10 companies – Twitter, Akamai, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, HP, IBM, Microsoft and Yahoo – were each graded on how well they performed in transparency, infrastructure siting and mitigation.
Twitter’s score? Straight ‘F’s for everything.
Here’s the report card:
Twitter’s low marks were given primarily because the company has a “radio silence” on information about its data centers.
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