Greenpeace Report Finds Tech Firms Switching to Renewables as Data Centers Proliferate
New research from Greenpeace East Asia has revealed that Chinese data center and cloud computing companies kept growing their reliance on clean power all through 2025, even with AI infrastructure driving demand sharply upward. Eight of the 25 firms surveyed pushed their clean electricity share past 30% by August 2026, a sharp jump from the group's 2024 findings, when just a single company had crossed that threshold. Tencent's clean-power share stood at 48.5%, and GDS pulled even further ahead at 60%. Momentum on formal commitments has grown too, though unevenly. More than half the surveyed group, fourteen companies in total,…
