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Greenpeace takes action on new Facebook energy hungry server centre
Facebook recently announced it will build a massive data centre in Oregon, U.S., packed full of the latest energy efficient computers to serve the hundreds of millions of friends connecting on their near-addictive social networking website. But the company plans to run the place on electricity made by burning coal--Yes,says Greenpeace, the dirtiest source of energy and largest single source of global warming pollution in the world.
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Facebook says that the new building and all the technology within it will be state of the art, energy efficient stuff. Saving energy makes good business sense, and it's good for the environment too. But data centres still consume massive amounts of energy to run computers, backup power, and related cooling equipment. If Facebook's data centre runs on fossil fuels, then it's contributing to climate change. See full story attached
17/03/2010 http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/facebook-dump-coal190210#
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