Both
companies invest heavily in renewable energy to cut costs. Facebook
says that its new data center in Fort Worth, Texas, like the Iowa one, will
run on 100 percent renewable energy, powered by wind turbines only 90 miles
away.
The company’s stacks of servers will be cooled using natural air,
mitigating the need for air conditioning units and cutting data center’s GHG emissions.
According to The New York Times, data centers worldwide run
an estimated 30 billion watts, or the output of 30 nuclear power plants, each
year.Another IT giant, Apple Inc will buy solar electricity from a new First Solar Inc plant farm to cut its energy bill through a fixed price for the renewable energy. Apple will receive electricity from 130 megawatts of capacity under a 25-year purchase agreement, the largest in the industry to provide clean energy to a commercial end user.
