Facebook embraces renewable energy to power its new data center

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Like other data centers built by Facebook in Lulea, Forest City and Prineville, the Altoona site is 100% cooled by outside air and is powered exclusively by renewable energy. A new wind project in Wellsburg, a close by town in Iowa, provides 140 megawatts of new, renewable energy to the Iowa energy grid – much more than the data center will need to operate both now and in the future. The combination of efficient construction and being powered by renewable energy sources is sure to prove to be a winning combination for the social network, and is likely to make it easier for Facebook to expand even further in the future by harnessing the same technologies.

http://www.betawired.com/facebook-embraces-renewable-energy-to-power-its-new-data-center/1414787/

Fossil fuels and nuclear are the dying gasp of a bygone era.

Welcome to the future. All Aboard!!!!

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1. I was hoping that Facebook would short-circuit

But maybe they're running on manure power as well.

They sure have enough bullshit from their members to power them for a millennium.

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2. I know... Expected them to do a MySpace...., have u seen Ello?