Major Tech Companies: Blocking Clean Power Plans Will Be Costly
President Barack Obama has the backing of Apple, Google, Microsoft and Amazon when it comes to the Clean Power Plan his administration has brought forward. Issues in 2015, states will be required to cut back on the amount of greenhouse gases that come from all US electric power plants.
President Barack Obama has the backing of Apple, Google, Microsoft and Amazon when it comes to the Clean Power Plan his administration has brought forward. Issues in 2015, states will be required to cut back on the amount of greenhouse gases that come from all US electric power plants.
The work to make this happen will have to be carried out by the Environmental Protection Agency will regulate it. There have been objections from 24 states and February saw the temporary blocking of the plan after the receipt of stay applications.
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Along with the people already mentioned, many others have thrown their support behind the plans, and this includes environmental groups and others who either have been or still are making the nations’ laws.
Apple, Google, Amazon and Microsoft are major consumers of energy, and they are looking at ways to reduce this and want to use more sustainable methods and use renewable sources.
This backs the view that climate change will cost us dearly while low-carbon use will bring many benefits including the ability to fight back against natural disasters as well as economic growth. The companies are also hoping to calm any fears that are rising as a result of the plans.
In 2014, Amazon pledged to reach the use of 100% renewable energy, while Apple already has 100% renewable power in the US plus 93% globally.
Google’s purchase of 2 gigawatts of renewable energy place it as the largest corporate buyer in the word and since 2012 Microsoft has been carbon neutral.
You can read the full brief here. The case is scheduled for oral argument on June 2.
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Yusuf Demir
Yusuf Demir is the Cloud & Software Reporter at TrendinTech, where he covers cloud infrastructure, enterprise platforms, developer tools and the digital transformation of businesses in the UK and the United States. He previously reported on enterprise technology for The Register in London and covered the cloud and SaaS beat for TechCrunch, following the competition between AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, the open source licensing disputes and the rise of Kubernetes. Yusuf holds an MEng in Computing from Imperial College London and speaks regularly at KubeCon and AWS re:Invent, where he moderates conversations with engineers and chief technology officers. He is most interested in the gap between vendor roadmaps and the systems engineers actually run, and in what the cloud bill looks like once the free credits expire.
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