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Bill Weihl
Manager of Energy Efficiency and Sustainability
Facebook
Bill Weihl joined Facebook in early 2012 to lead the company's sustainability and energy efficiency efforts. He was previously the Green Energy Czar at Google, where he led engineering efforts in renewable energy and energy efficiency. He also helped create and led the RE<C initiative, which drove rapid innovation to make renewable electricity cost-competitive with coal-fired electricity. In addition, he co-founded the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, which galvanized industry efforts to make computing more energy efficient. Prior to Google, he was Chief Architect and then CTO at Akamai Technologies.
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