Microsoft Commits To Carbon Neutrality

Microsoft has recommitted itself to working in greener pastures by promising carbon neutrality by July 1st, the start of fiscal 2013. The software giant announced this week "that it wants to make its data centers, software development labs, air travel, and office buildings carbon neutral."

Microsoft, who has been made substantial efforts in the past to account for it's impact on the environment,will introduce an accountability model that will hold regional divisions responsible for their carbon output and even reward those that reduce environmental impact.

Previously we have seen carbon neutrality efforts in the airline industry with some carriers in Europe, we hope this trend continues on to other industries as well.

How clean is your cloud?

GreenPeace has released a report titled "How clean is your cloud?" analyzing the environmental cost of this huge data-centers that every day mange our datas but, indeed, use not clean energy.
They analyzed 80 data-centers of the 14 biggest IT companies. The percentage is referred to the Clean Energy Index (elaborated by GreenPeace) basing to the demand of energy and the percentage of green one.

1. Yahoo! (56,4%);
2. Dell (56,3%);
3. Google (39,4%);
4. Facebook (36,4%);
5. Rackspace (23,6%);
6. Twitter (21,3%);
7. HP (19,4%);
8. Apple (15,3%);
9. Microsoft (13,9%);
10. Amazon Web Services (13,5%);
11. IBM (12,1%);
12. Oracle (7,1%);
13. Salesforce (4,0%).