Two Greenpeace activists who were protesting against usage of dirty energy for powering data centers were arrested after being taken out of a giant iPod in front of Apple’s headquarters. Although Greenpeace confirmed the arrests, the environmental organization did not confirm the charges.
The two protesters had apparently locked themselves inside an 8-ft tall, 10-ft wide survival pod which had earlier been used during protests against oil drilling in the Arctic regions. The two Greenpeace activists were reportedly broadcasting recorded messages, asking Apple to replace the currently-used dirty energy generated from coal (responsible for climate change) by clean energy for powering its online services, including iCloud data storage, according to Greenpeace.
Greenpeace USA executive director Phil Radford said that Apple has so far mostly ignored the messages and requests by thousands of people, urging them to make use of its substantial influence for the betterment of the world powering its online services using renewable energy.
However, Apple rejected Greenpeace’s findings and dismissed them as outdated or outright wrong. The tech giant said that it was leading the effort to shift data centers to clean energy.
Apparently, Apple’s new North Carolina data center is looking to source over 60 percent of its power supply from renewable sources, like an on-site solar farm and a fuel cell installation, which are said to be the largest of their type in the US. In fact, Apple is claiming that the facility is going to be “the greenest data center ever built” and another facility will be opened next year in Oregon which will run only on renewable energy.
The protest began on late Monday with many activists projecting pictures, Tweets and even Facebook posts from the supporters of the “Clean Our Cloud” campaign on the walls of Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, California.
Greenpeace is urging all technology firms that data centers in order to provide online software/ services to show transparency regarding energy usage and to shift to renewable sources of energy.
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