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Facebook's New Data Center To Be Powered Entirely By Renewables

Posted by Soulskill on from the any-way-the-wind-blows dept.

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.

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  1. Facebook use and lattes by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    They claim the carbon impact of one person's yearly Facebook use is roughly the same as the impact of one medium latte.

    Great. We've moved into a whole new era of hipster-friendly casual units of measurement.

    Henceforth, length of text will no longer be measured in Libraries of Congress, but in multiples of either Gravity's Rainbow or Atlas Shrugged.

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