We are seated in Facebook’s cafeteria as Mark Zuckerberg is discussing how Facebook’s servers and data center facilities are working more efficiently and reducing the use of coal-based power. The content of this announcement jibes with what we’d predicted in our previous post about the event. Be sure to hit the hard refresh keys on your machine to keep up with our live updates of this post.
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People are posting on Facebook about nationwide gas boycotts — one occurring tomorrow and another on May 15 — at an increasing pace.
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A new Facebook group set up by Greenpeace is calling for Facebook to use 100 percent renewable energy within their data centers. This is a reinvigorated movement from the initial backlash against Facebook’s environmental policies at the beginning of February. The latest group has over 150,000 members, far more than any previous group that has attempted to get Facebook to change their environmental policies.
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