Facebook Unfriends Coal Friends Greenpeace
In late October, Facebook announced plans to build a new data center in Lulea, Sweden, using hydroelectric power for the servers and relying on the local climate to cool the data center for free. At the time, though, Facebook made no commitment to use clean and renewable energy in its other data centers. Greenpeace rated Facebook’s existing data centers as among the dirtiest on the planet in its April report on cloud-computing services, ” How dirty is your data?...