Greenpeace… launched a…protest at the construction site of Chunghwa Telecom's…Internet Data Center...call[ing] for… use [of] energy that is 100 percent renewable in the future. Greenpeace…conducted a survey of…companies providing cloud computing services locally…announcing that companies including Chunghwa, Google, Acer, Asus and Taiwan Mobile have not converted to using entirely renewable energy…

The telecommunications giant…stated that it would be reserving the right to pursue legal action if Greenpeace has…violated the law…Chunghwa Telecom used over 1.4 billion kilowatts of electricity in 2013, the majority of which was generated by burning coal...“Only 0.01 percent of the company's energy use is renewable…yet it is only focusing on the development of its cloud computing services…”…However, the…company stated that it began its energy saving campaign in 2008, and successfully cut its greenhouse gas emissions in 2011 to the levels of 2007…