THE FACEBOOK FACES WIND

Massive wind farm to power Facebook's $1B data center campus in Fort Worth

Candace Carlisle, July 7, 2015

“Social media giant Facebook will invest up to $1 billion to build a massive global data campus in north Fort Worth, which will draw renewable power from a wind farm…[The Facebook searched the planet for] a shovel ready site with good access to fiber and renewable energy in a centrally located part of the country…By summer 2016, Facebook plans to complete construction on the initial phase of the data center campus…[T]he economic impact of the Facebook goes beyond the company’s capital investment…[to reshaping its industry towards] efficiency and sustainability…By the end of 2018, Facebook hopes to get to 50 percent renewable energy with the long-term goal of bringing it to 100 percent renewable energy in the future…That goal will be helped with a new [$287 million, 119 wind turbine, 200 MW] wind farm being built…to supply the campus with renewable energy…” click here for more

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