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The environmental organization Greenpeace Facebook challenge to switch from coal to one based entirely on renewable sources to power their datacenter. All this by 2021.
Facebook steps to renewable energy. Greenpeace, after point the finger at the cloud computing in general ( Cloud computing polluter, the alarm Greenpeace ) rails against the world's most popular social network.
Facebook made yesterday 7 years and has more than 500 million users who spend over 700 billion minutes per month to play, look up information, talk in chat. According to Greenpeace, these and other activities "require more energy, every birthday that passes," and suggests to feed the huge data centers with renewable energy, in order to reduce the environmental impact .
The environmental organization has launched an initiative called " Facebook: Unfriend coal", in which calls for marry to all its appeal, which is the company to ask for Mark Zuckerberg 's efforts on the following: increased use of clean energy from coal to make Facebook an independent, develop a plan that by 2021 ports to Facebook use only renewable energy, educate their users about how Facebook offers its services and keep them updated Environmental Footprint, a promoter for the use of clean energy locally, nationally and internationally. It calls on the social network to give signs of life on environmental by April 22, Earth Day.
According to Greenpeace, Facebook uses the energy of 19 power stations to coal , A power technology of the nineteenth century stride for a service which, with its innovations, to become the vanguard of the twenty-first century.
Urge then decided a change , also to give a signal to other companies in the IT industry, more and more centralization of activities and have huge data centers that, thanks to the non-stop, have high costs and environmental impact. Suffice it to say that the electricity produced and consumed for "Internet" is at a level that if it were a country, would be in fifth position for energy consumption.
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