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Following upon the announcement last year of a new facility in Oregon, followed by a doubling of that facility, news this week is that the social network will now also be building a $450 million facility in North Carolina.
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In the newest campaign against the social network's new data center in Oregon, Greenpeace has created a short animation mocking the company's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.
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The facility is the first phase of a two-year plan to build a network of data centers powered by renewable energies that could eventually host the world's largest websites and shrink the internet's carbon footprint.
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What do you do when it seems that nearly all the low-hanging fruit of energy savings has been harvested? You stretch and look for more. That's what the EDF Climate Corps fellow at eBay has done this summer in her assignment at one of the greener companies in Silicon Valley.
by Megan Rast
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Calling the connection between manure and computing a "symbiotic relationship," a new research paper from HP Labs outlines how a mid-sized dairy farm can power a one-megawatt data center.
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After calling out the social network for using electricity generated with coal for its new green data center, it turns out that at least some of Greenpeace's servers are powered by coal as well as nuclear power.
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<a href='http://bacardilimited.com/'>Bacardi Ltd.</a>, the world's largest privately held spirits company, cut greenhouse gas emissions 9.2 percent in the last fiscal year by increasing efficiencies and the use of renewable energy, while <a href='http://www.us.kpmg.com/'>KPMG LLP</a> shrank its carbon footprint in the U.S. by reducing air travel, use of electricity and waste.
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The social network earned cheers aplenty for its recently announced energy-efficient data center, some of which are turning to jeers now that it turns out its electricity will primarily be generated by dirty coal.