{"id":293043,"date":"2010-02-08T06:40:51","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T11:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.greenlaunches.com,2010:\/\/19.52273"},"modified":"2010-02-09T00:50:19","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T05:50:19","slug":"facebook-switches-to-coal-to-keep-up-with-rising-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/293043","title":{"rendered":"Facebook switches to coal to keep up with rising prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"facebook-computer-monitor.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenlaunches.com\/entry_images\/0210\/08\/facebook-computer-monitor.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\"\/><\/span><br \/>\nWhat happens when a company is growing but cannot keep up with the power bills? It decides to go green! But I don\u2019t think that&#8217;s what happened with Facebook. Their new Oregon data center will now be powered by a coal plant in Idaho to reduce costs. According to a report from the Energy Information Administration, the last 5 years the data center&#8217;s power consumption has grown to 1.4 percent of the total energy use in the country! But in a bid to reduce their overall carbon foot print, the Pineville-based data center would be equipped with an outside-air intake system to cool the massive data servers, thus creating a health mix of renewable energy based power-grid!<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2010\/02\/facebook-grows-coal.php#ch01\">Treehugger<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens when a company is growing but cannot keep up with the power bills? It decides to go green! But I don\u2019t think that&#8217;s what happened with Facebook. Their new Oregon data center will now be powered by a coal plant in Idaho to reduce costs. According to a report from the Energy Information [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1708,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1708"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}