Clean Energy: Four Companies Control Half the World’s Corporate Clean Energy Purchases
Four companies, Amazon, Meta, Google, and Microsoft, bought nearly half of all corporate clean energy contracts globally in 2025. Meanwhile, everyone else pulled back, with overall volumes declining for the first time in eight years. What looks like a sustainability win is actually a story about market concentration, economic fragility, and what happens when the clean energy transition and the U.S. economy both depend on the same handful of companies making the same massive bets. In this discussion, we break down the data and explain why CIOs, energy leaders, and policymakers should be paying close attention.
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Clean Energy: Four Companies Control Half the World’s Corporate Clean Energy Purchases
Four companies, Amazon, Meta, Google, and Microsoft, bought nearly half of all corporate clean energy contracts globally in 2025. Meanwhile, everyone else pulled back, with overall volumes declining for the first time in eight years. What looks like a sustainability win is actually a story about market concentration, economic fragility, and what happens when the clean energy transition and the U.S. economy both depend on the same handful of companies making the same massive bets. In this discussion, we break down the data and explain why CIOs, energy leaders, and policymakers should be paying close attention.
Strategy: Bridging Distribution and Lifecycle: How Ingram Micro is Doing it and Lessons for the ITAM/ITAD Sectors
Ingram Micro’s latest quarterly results reveal a rapid acceleration beyond traditional IT distribution and into the full spectrum of lifecycle orchestration and digital platform services. They confirm to a certain extent what I have been saying all along: companies...
Corporate Sustainability Brief: Samsung Electronics
I recently moderated a session at REMA 2025 in San Diego with Samsung Electronics' sustainability leaders, Daniel Araujo and Jenni Chun. It was a great conversation about what one of the world’s biggest technology companies is doing to make sustainability real—not...
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Sustainability in Practice: Reviewing Hitachi Digital Services’ Strategy
So I spent some time researching how Hitachi Digital Services runs its business—specifically through the lens of sustainability—and I have to say, I came away impressed with what the company does and how it does it. Sustainability shows up in the work itself: in the...
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Bracing for Escalating Demand by Corporations for Critical Security and Compliance Procedures and Certifications From their Suppliers and Partners
US and global companies are increasingly requiring their suppliers and service providers to demonstrate their capacity to secure their IT assets through specific procedures and related certifications, such as ISO 27001 and SOC 2. In this episode, David Daoud and Compliance Standards’ Head of Security Research, Louis Van Der Westhuizen, will address ongoing trends in data security and related certifications.
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