Wind: Totally Powers Facebooks New Data Center

Facebook has a goal to have 1/4 of its global data center energy consumption,
. . . come from clean power by 2015.
Google, Apple, Microsoft, eBay and
. . . many others are experimenting with various ways,
. . . to add in clean power, too.

Using clean power as a determining factor
. . . for siting the location of a data center is an new and
. . . just emerging trend.

Local utility MidAmerican Energy(Warren Buffett) will,
. . . build, own and operate the 138 MW wind farm,
. . . which will be built in 2014 in Wellsburg, Iowa.

The data center, which will be built close by in Altoona, Iowa,
. . . will use a similar energy efficient design as,
. . . Facebook’s other data centers, based on its Open Compute architecture in
. . . Oregon, North Carolina and Sweden.

2013-11-13 Source:  Facebook