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Greenpeace took its push for a "clean" iCloud to Apple's Cupertino,Calif., campus this week, projecting images onto the main buildingof its corporate headquarters. In addition to projecting messages of support from Twitter andFacebook users onto the side of the building, Greenpeace activistsalso barricaded themselves inside an eight-foot-tall, ten-foot-wide"survival device" that has previously been used to prevent Arcticdrilling. The demonstration also featured four Greenpeace members dressed asiPhones, with fully functional screens across their torsos thatdisplayed messages from supporters via Facebook and Twitter. "Apple executives have thus far ignored the hundreds of thousandsof people asking them to use their influence for good by building acloud powered by renewable energy," Greenpeace USA ExecutiveDirector Phil Radford said. "As Apple customers, we love ouriPhones and iPads, but we don want to use an iCloud fueled by thesmog of dirty coal pollution." The organization said more than 215,000 people have signed its"Clean Our Cloud" petition, which asks Apple to power the iCloudservice with clean, renewable energy. Greenpeace has taken issuewith the fact that Apple's North Carolina facility uses somecoal-fired power plants from Duke Energy. Tuesday's demonstration was just the latest in a series fromGreenpeace in an effort to promote is "How Clean is Your Cloud?"report, which was issued in April . That report accused Apple of lagging behind other technologycompanies, such as Facebook and Google, in utilizingenvironmentally friendly power for its cloud-based services. But Apple rejected the estimates in Greenpeace's study related to its Maiden, N.C., data center.Apple's own figures state that renewable energy will provide morethan 50 percent of the center's power needs than the environmentaladvocacy group projected. Apple believes that its Maiden data center will be the greenestfacility of its kind ever built. It will be joined next year byanother facility in Prineville, Ore., that will rely on 100 percent renewable energy. Last month, Greenpeace members staged a protest on the roof of Apple's European headquarters in Cork, Ireland, andplaced signs on the building's windows to spell out the words"clean our cloud." The event was coordinated with similardemonstrations held in Turkey and Luxembourg. The e-commerce company in China offers quality products such as Mercedes Benz Diagnostic , Launch X431 Master Manufacturer, and more. For more , please visit Car Diagnostics Tools today!
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