Clean Clicks vs. Dirty Data | The New Republic

Clean Clicks vs. Dirty Data

What would it take to build an environmentally sustainable internet?

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.