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Facebook's New Data Center To Be Powered Entirely By Renewables
totalcaos writes: Facebook's new $500 million data center in Forth Worth will be powered entirely by renewable energy, thanks to a 200-megawatt wind project nearby. The data center will come online next year, and the company further plans to power the rest of its data centers with at least 50% renewables by the end of 2018. It's long-term goal is 100%. They claim the carbon impact of one person's yearly Facebook use is roughly the same as the impact of one medium latte.
No, you are arguing for a level of pedantry sufficient to make the precise point you want to make. Arrangements like this are "exclusively renewable" as the agreed amounts of renewable energy put in to the "pot" and taken out of it are the same. That's it. That's how it works, how it has worked in the past in non-renewable power production, and how it will continue to work in the future. If your pedantry clouds your rational mind, you might want to consider giving one up for the sake of the other... The choice of which is yours, naturally.