{"id":28309,"date":"2013-11-18T10:27:59","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T10:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-1190801-4202256.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=28309"},"modified":"2013-11-18T10:27:59","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T10:27:59","slug":"facebook-iowa-data-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenlaunches.com\/alternative-energy\/facebook-iowa-data-center.php","title":{"rendered":"Facebook\u2019s Altoona data center to be powered 100% by renewable energy"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nSocial networking is a great way to stay connected with people you wouldn\u2019t want to regularly pick up a phone and call but let\u2019s face it; these activities do cast a blotch of carbon on the environment. Keeping this in mind, the world\u2019s largest social network today, Facebook, has decided to take a green jump. The company has decided to have an entire data center powered by wind energy. Located in Altoona, Iowa, the data center will be 100% powered by wind energy from a nearby windfarm project.
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\nThe wind project, which will be owned and operated by MidAmerican Energy is located in Wellsburg, Iowa, and is currently under construction. \u201cWhen we settled on Altoona as the location for our fourth data center, one of the deciding factors was the opportunity to help develop a new wind project in the state,\u201d says the Facebook blog. This is the second data center owned by Facebook that is powered by renewable energy. <\/p>\n
[Via – Wired<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Social networking is a great way to stay connected with people you wouldn\u2019t want to regularly pick up a phone and call but let\u2019s face it; these activities do cast a blotch of carbon on the environment. Keeping this in … Continue reading3