Red clouds are in no rush to go green
China's major cloud computing and datacenter players aren't going green in a hurry, according to a Greenpeace study – leaving Microsoft tied to a datacenter operator that uses just 4.35 percent renewable energy. considered China's ten cloud providers and 15 of its biggest datacenter operators, which collectively accounted for over 52 percent of China's Infrastructure as a service market in the first half of 2023, and over 60 percent of the internet datacenter market in 2022.
The study also found that Alibaba Group had committed to using 100 percent for Alibaba Cloud, and that Alibaba Group purchased 1.61 billion kilowatt-hours of renewable energy in 2023. Tencent has reported its contracts for renewable energy topped 1.3 billion kWh in 2024. But some are yet to use many renewables. The study found Baidu uses renewables for 5.11 percent of its energy needs, and VNET Group – operator of Microsoft 365 in China – uses just 4.35 percent renewables.
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