Greenpeace recently released its “make IT green” report which predicts that cloud computing will increase the energy problems. It alleges that Cloud computing will consume nearly 2 trillion kilowatt hours of electricity a year by 2020.

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Greenpeace names Amazon, Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, Intel, and others in its report saying:
With the growth of the cloud, however, comes an increasing demand for energy. For all of this content to be delivered to us in real time, virtual mountains of video, pictures and other data must be stored somewhere and be available …