Report highlights mixed sustainability progress of China's tech giants

GDS leads the pack - but Chinese cloud giants are slow to pick up renewable energy

There's no time for offsets in an emergency

Environmental charity praises Telstra, says Amazon, Global Switch and others need to do more

And energy use will nearly quadruple by 2035

Amnesty International says Saudi Arabia is "an unsafe country to host the Google Cloud"

Second annual Clean Cloud report praises ChinData, but slams lack of commitments from an industry on track to out consume all of Australia

Sure, the data centers might be run on green energy, but they're being used to run dirty workloads

But will still sell Azure to Big Oil

Energy use by China’s Internet industry is set to skyrocket, says the group

And it's only set to get worse

More than 400 Australian companies have already published their emissions and energy data for the financial year 2017-18

Data Center Alley giants don't want the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, they want renewables

The data center industry can only reach its renewable commitments if it moves away from buying existing energy credits and into PPAs

A report by the environmental organization suggests that AWS has failed to live up to promises to power its data centers with 100 percent renewable energy

Asks the industry to do more to boost renewable energy generation

In accordance with its pledge to achieve 50 percent of renewables across its global network by 2020

We discuss renewable power, Russian spies and tax breaks

AWS and Netflix called out on their use of oil and coal

New Clicking Green report turns the spotlight on utilities as well as cloud providers