Clouding Green

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"Clouding Green - Yahoo HQ" - Greenpeace Clean Energy Index 56.4%
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"Clouding Green - Salesforce HQ" - Greenpeace Clean Energy Index 4%
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The world’s computing power is moving into the Cloud – but where does the Cloud get its energy?

A commission for the 2012 Zero1 Biennial and Samek Art Gallery, the artworks for “Clouding Green” are massive augmented reality clouds in colors ranging from sooty carbon black to brilliant renewable green. Each cloud refers to a major Silicon Valley cloud computing provider cited in the Greenpeace report “How Clean is Your Cloud,” with the color reflecting the percentage of renewable energy used to power each company's cloud servers.

For the 2013 Digital Art Weeks Singapore I created a "portable" version of the project consisting of 5 of these clouds floating above the ArtScience Museum in Singapore. Touching each cloud tells you the name of the company and its Clean Energy Index.