Greenpeace International - Facebook: Unfriend Coal

Publisher:
Greenpeace Magazine
Publication Date:
16 September 2010
Tags:
Energy, ICT and Telecom

Facebook announced in February that 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, the dirtiest source of energy and largest single source of global warming pollution in the world.

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