Facebook gonig forward
Facebook is building their second datacenter, a $450 million dollar investment in the economy of North Carolina. One can only imagine that Greenpeace is primed to go into action if the facility doesn’t use power that is environmentally friendly at all steps in the process and produces no side effects beyond rainbows and butterflies.
Facebook is building the facility with the target of obtaining LEEDS Gold certification, so they will be heavily invested in efficiency and utilizing the LEED guidelines for the construction of new facilities that meet the definitions of green. Utilization of environmental cooling, rather than traditional chillers, high-efficiency power utilization, multiple type of energy sourcing will all go a long way to making the new datacenter a green poster child.
