Amazon has been promoting its cloud services to the oil and gas industry, despite its commitment to achieving 50 percent renewable energy usage for its global infrastructure. Its cloud services division, Amazon Web Services, has begun a two-year campaign to enlist energy companies such as ExxonMobil and Chevron as clients, aiming to optimise their oil production and profits by replacing in-house data centres with its cloud services. Greenpeace USA has criticised Amazon for supporting green energy in public while backing the oil industry for its own profits, but the company claims it is keeping to its commitment.
Amazon has been promoting its cloud services to the oil and gas industry, despite its commitment to achieving 100% renewable energy usage for its global infrastructure. Its cloud services division, Amazon Web Services, has begun a two-year campaign to enlist energy companies such as ExxonMobil and Chevron as clients, aiming to optimise their oil production and profits by replacing in-house data centres with its cloud services. Greenpeace USA has criticised Amazon for supporting green energy in public while backing the oil industry for its own profits, but the company claims it is keeping to its commitment.