So, whoever has the cheapest power will be able to provide cheapest services, or charge more for capacity located in more energy-expensive regions (for latency).
So, whoever has the cheapest power will be able to provide cheapest services, or charge more for capacity located in more energy-expensive regions (for latency).
"For starters, as of January 2016, we’re sourcing or generating enough renewable energy to cover 93 percent of the electricity we use at our facilities worldwide. In fact, Apple is now 100 percent renewable in 23 countries, including China, Germany, Singapore, and the United States. We’re also 100 percent renewable at every one of our data centers. So whenever you send an iMessage, download a song from iTunes, or ask Siri a question, the energy Apple uses doesn’t contribute to climate change.
In the past five years, we have reduced the carbon footprint of Apple facilities by 64 percent thanks to our clean energy use, avoiding over 1 million metric tons of carbon emissions. We’re working hard to reach 100 percent renewable energy for all of our facilities worldwide, and help our suppliers in China and everywhere around the world make the same transition to clean energy as we have."
Yeah, they rank on the list, but they're pretty far behind.
I don’t think the thing to judge by is who consumes the most renewable energy.
One of the reasons the UAE pitches itself as a data centre site.
Renewables are effectively second-class citizens in the energy world until they can match the reliable storage capacity available from dead dinosaur.
While it's a good point, I don't entirely agree with it.
More apt: renewables are not cheap. They are very expensive in almost all parts of the Western world.