You can look at the massive transformation of the Internet now, through the demand of clean energy. The internet is one of the most important things created by humanity. It's like human civilization giving itself a nervous system such as Google, investing substantially in green solutions. By moving the IT department to the cloud one can save up to 87% of IT energy! But since all that internet traffic ends up in the massive data-centers of a few big companies, Greenpeace has released a interest report that shows how companies are creating the green internet...
It's interesting to notice who the bigger winners and losers are
In theory, over time the new more efficient equipment’s energy savings of for example, a cellular base station can repay the energy debt embodied in manufacturing that hardware. But the odds are high that the new equipment will end up being obsoleted and replaced long before the operational efficiency pays for the manufacturing energy debt.
Estimated 2.5 billion people around the world are now connected to the internet, an internet that has become a foundation of the global economy!