Since 2011, Greenpeace has reported the yearly use of coal, nuclear, and renewable energy in data centers used by the world’s largest tech companies. We’ve made strides toward a greener internet—Apple now runs 100 percent of its U.S operations with renewable energy—but no click is entirely clean.
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