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    Facebook to connect off-grid areas to the internet with solar-powered drones

    Posted on April 2, 2015 by gavril

    Facebook wants the world to signup, like, comment and share, and in order to do so, the company has stumbled across a way to “take the internet” to remote areas. Facebook will use solar-powered drones to “beam internet to devices … Continue reading3 →

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    Facebook’s Altoona data center to be powered 100% by renewable energy

    Posted on November 18, 2013 by gavril

    Social networking is a great way to stay connected with people you wouldn’t want to regularly pick up a phone and call but let’s face it; these activities do cast a blotch of carbon on the environment. Keeping this in … Continue reading3 →

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    Facebook to go green with energy-efficient data centre

    Posted on April 8, 2011 by gavril

    Up ahead, logging on to your Facebook page and pouring out your heart on your “wall” won’t be so much of a polluting act, with Facebook drawing plans to open up an energy-efficient data centre. This one built in collaboration … Continue reading3 →

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    Its about time Facebook goes green, thinks Greenpeace

    Posted on September 6, 2010 by gavril

    “The whole world’s on Facebook!” yeah you’ve probably heard of that one before. Well, Greenpeace get the jitters every time someone says that aloud. And no, it isn’t because they hate socializing. They just hate the use of coal that … Continue reading3 →

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    Greenpeace slams Facebook for not being green enough

    Posted on August 10, 2010 by gavril

    Writing on a wall and putting up pictures there hasn’t been so much fun, until Facebook, the good old social networking site that has turned out to be the newest addiction of the 21st century. Well, all said and done, … Continue reading3 →

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    Facebook switches to coal to keep up with rising prices

    Posted on February 8, 2010 by kamakshi

    What happens when a company is growing but cannot keep up with the power bills? It decides to go green! But I don’t think that’s what happened with Facebook. Their new Oregon data center will now be powered by a … Continue reading3 →

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    Facebook can reduce carbon footprint by changing its coding

    Posted on December 22, 2009 by gavril

    The popular and addictive social networking website, Facebook, can get rid of 22,500 servers and move down to just 7,500 servers. And how is that possible? A programmer states that, by changing its coding from PHP to C++, Facebook can … Continue reading3 →

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