There is a myth surrounding the cloud regarding it as a green technology. Though we love cloud computing, people tend to think that if they bring their technology to the cloud, they’re being green. Much of this misconception comes from the cloud providers themselves, but a lot is from general misunderstandings of what the cloud is.
Since the cloud is nothing more than a rented data center that someone else owns, cloud computing itself can’t be much greener than any other data center technology. For example, in our own data centers, we have our own routers, switches, firewalls, storage — everything we need.
