Users demand Facebook to switch to renewable energy

Social networking website faces campaign to switch to renewable energy after announcing intentions to run new data centre mainly on coal-powered electricity.
By: Envido Ltd.
 
Sept. 3, 2010 - PRLog -- Social networking website faces campaign to switch to renewable energy after announcing intentions to run new data centre mainly on coal-powered electricity.

Facebook, the most used social network worldwide, has come under unprecedented pressure from its users when they found out the company has intentions to run its massive new data centre mainly on electricity produced by burning coal power. In one of the web's fastest-growing environmental campaigns, at least 500,000 people have demanded Facebook to switch to renewable energy. Its massive new data centre mainly on electricity produced by burning coal power.

Facebook announced in February its plans to build what is expected to be the world's largest centralised data storage centre in Portland, Oregon. Although it will include some of the world's most energy-efficient computers, the sheer scale of the Facebook operation will almost certainly use more electricity than many developing countries.

Facebook has not declared how much electricity it uses to stream video, store information and to connect its 500m users. However, industry estimates that all the data centres and telecommunication networks in the world, at their present rate of growth will consume about 1,963bn kilowatt hours of electricity by 2020. That is more than triple their current consumption and more electricity than is used by France, Germany, Canada and Brazil combined.

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