Facebook Says Its New Data Center Will Run Entirely on Wind | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com

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"But one of the biggest impacts of these sorts of projects is a boost in overall availability of renewable energy, says Greenpeace IT analyst Gary Cook. “When Facebook said back in spring that they were going to Iowa, the utility company in Iowa, MidAmerican Energy, announced that they were shelving plans to build a new nuclear facility and then filed plans to build a wind plant instead,” Cook told us earlier this week. “If you look at the regulatory filing, this was because they have new customers, namely Facebook, that want more renewable energy.”"

Facebook Says Its New Data Center Will Run Entirely on Wind | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com