Google Receives Highest Score in New Greenpeace Ranking of IT Companies
Greenpeace has released the 5th version of its "Cool IT Leaderboard," which finds internet search engine giant Google in the lead, followed by Cisco and Ericsson. Google scored particularly well for its political advocacy work and for sourcing renewable energy to its infrastructure. Google, Cisco, and Dell all stand out for sourcing over 20 percent renewable energy globally for each of the company's infrastructures. Oracle received the lowest ranking overall for failing to disclose renewable as well as dirty energy use.
The rapid expansion of the telecom infrastructure and the data centers that power the 'Cloud' is driving significant energy demand in many areas, much of it from dirty sources, such as coal and diesel. The Cool IT Leaderboard evaluates global IT companies on their leadership in the fight to stop climate change as this sector possesses the innovative spirit, technological know-how, and political influence to bring about a rapid clean energy revolution.