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Data Center Design:
Construction,
Container,
Data Center Outages,
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Policy: Cap and Trade, Carbon Footprint, Carbon Reduction Commitment, Carbon Tax, Emissions
Power: Biomass, Fossil Fuel, Fuel Cell, Geothermal, Hydro, Nuclear, Solar, Wind
Application: Cloud Computing, Grid Computing
Technology: Microblogging, Networking, Servers, Storage, Supercomputer
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Facebook is the Poster Child for Carbon in the Data Center Industry
greenm3.com (Nov 15 2010)
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Facebook has 0.5% of the installed base of Servers in World, hosted in about 10 colocation sites mainly in Santa Clara and Ashburn, VA. Google and Microsoft have more servers in more locations, but Greenpeace and other environmentalists don't find these companies nearly as interesting. Facebook represents its perception to media like OregonLive.
Q: Right after you announced your plans, Greenpeace and others chimed in about your power source (which includes PacifiCorp coal power). What did you learn about people's perceptions?
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