EBay Plans Data Center That Will Use Alternative Energy
EBay plans to build a data center to handle its billions of dollars in retail transactions that will draw its power from alternative energy fuel cells rather than the national power grid, which is heavily dependent on coal plants. Enlarge This Image Bloom Energy Bloom Energy servers. The company will provide the cells for a new data center that will handle eBay’s retail transactions. It will be the first major tech company to use alternative power as a primary source for energy-hungry data centers, although the new center will connect to the electricity grid for backup. Environmental groups have issued a series of rebukes to Internet companies because of their heavy reliance on coal-fired power to run their centers.
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