So says Greenpeace, which just concluded an environmental impact study on several cloud heavyweights. That includes Apple, Google, Amazon, IBM, Yahoo, and Facebook, though Apple topped the list of environmental offenders. That is partly because Apple’s upcoming, $1 billion cloud computing center in North Carolina will rely heavily on coal – in fact, 54.2 percent … Continue reading Apple’s Cloud Facility Will Consume the Power of 80,000 Homes