Facebook and Greenpeace end feud over renewable energy

Social network megalith Facebook has announced it will work with Greenpeace to promote clean energy ending a feud between the two. Facebook announced today (December 15) it will collaborate on the promotion of renewable energy, encourage major utilities to develop renewables and develop programmes to help its estimated 850m users save energy. The news comes two years after Greenpeace launched its global Unfriend Coal Campaign, which urged Facebook to ditch coal as its power source of its data centres. Facebook’s goal, announced today, is to power its operations, including its data centres, using clean and renewable energy. As part of the agreement Facebook will invest in on-going research into energy efficiency and the open sharing of that technology through the Open Compute Project, which Greenpeace will work to support. Facebook also hopes to engage in dialogue with energy companies about the sources of energy that power its data centres. “This move sets an example for the industry to follow”, said Greenpeace’s International Climate and Energy Program co-director, Tzeporah Berman. More…

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