Green America’s campaigns urging Amazon, telecoms, and Comcast to adopt 100% renewable energy have scored big wins.
Thanks to the support of hundreds of thousands of people taking action with us, joining extensive media and social media campaigns, we’ve pushed these enormous energy users to shift to solar, wind, and battery storage:
- Amazon: our campaign led Amazon to commit to 100% renewable energy and reach that goal in 2023*, up from 0% renewables in 2012.
- Telecom Sector: our campaign targeting the largest communications companies in the US achieved renewable commitments from all three major carriers – AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile (all of which had been using less than 2% renewables):
- Comcast: our campaign led to the communications giant (which also owns NBC Universal) to double its clean energy usage to 25% of its total energy.
These companies collectively use as much energy as an entire US state or small country (Amazon is using enough clean energy to power 12 million homes and the three telecoms use enough energy to power over 3 million homes), so when they purchased renewable energy they are making the largest corporate commitments to solar and wind in history.
And those purchases are helping drive down the cost of solar and wind power nationwide and around the world.
Green America is now building on this progress by urging the largest tech companies to power their AI data centers with 100% renewable energy.
*Note: after Amazon reached 100% renewable energy, it started building AI data centers, and like other tech giants – Google, Meta, and Microsoft – is now ramping up dirty energy sources again to power these massive data centers. Join us in pushing the tech sector to use renewable energy only.
