A new study has highlighted the slow progress of China’s major cloud computing and data center companies in adopting renewable energy. The Greenpeace report reveals VNEP Group, the operator of Microsoft 365 in China, uses just 4.35% renewable energy. The news comes days after it was revealed China wants to increase its compute power by 30% before 2025 in order to meet the demands of artificial intelligence and power-hungry data centers. China’s dirty data centers The ‘Clean Cloud 2024’ report assessed 10 cloud providers and 15 data center operators in China, who collectively held more than half (52%) of the...