Center for Investigative Reporting

You’ve heard about the Foxconn factory in China where your iPad is assembled. But have you ever considered the energy required to store your emails, photos and videos in the cloud? As worldwide demand for data storage skyrockets, so do the power needs of the servers where our digital archives live.

While some companies (like Facebook) have made great progress in ditching dirty fossil-fuel energy for cleaner renewables, a few Internet giants lag far behind. Climate Desk visited Maiden, North Carolina, for a close-up view of what will soon be one of the world’s biggest data centers - owned by Apple and powered by the coal-heavy power behemoth Duke Energy. This video is part of our Climate Desk collaboration.

New Hampshire’s GOP Voters Speak Out About Climate Change. The video was produced by Climate Desk, a journalistic collaboration dedicated to exploring the impact—human, environmental, economic, political—of a changing climate. The partners are The Atlantic, Center for Investigative Reporting, Grist, Mother Jones, Slate, Wired, and PBS’s  public-affairs show Need To Know.