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Apple: Greenpeace's Cloud Critique Driven By Bogus Numbers

Posted by samzenpus on from the check-the-figures dept.

miller60 writes "Apple says Greenpeace has wildly overestimated the amount of power it uses in its data center in North Carolina, and used that bad math to give the company a low grade on sustainability. Apple says it uses 20 megawatts of power at its iDataCenter, a fraction of Greenpeace's estimate of 100 megawatts in a new report on energy use by cloud computing providers. Apple says that its huge solar array and biogas-powered fuel cell will supply 60 percent of the facility's power, not the 10 percent claimed by Greenpeace."

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  1. Fight the power! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, wait...

  2. Excellent... by mekkab · · Score: 5, Funny

    This was a subtle ploy by data center competitors to use Greenpeace to get Apple to reveal their power consumption strategies... And it worked!

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    In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
  3. Re:What it really means: by delysid-x · · Score: 2, Funny

    Since when has Apple ever revealed actual numbers? Sure Greenpeace are a bunch of sensationalist hippies, but so is Apple.