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Facebook hires Google’s former Green Energy Czar Bill Weihl, and increases its commitment to renewables

Dec 20, 2011

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Tom Raftery

in Technology / Software

Google has had an impressive record in renewable energy. They invested over $850m dollars in renewable energy projects to do with geothermal, solar and wind energy. They entered into 20 year power purchase agreements with wind farm producers guaranteeing to buy their energy at an agreed price for twenty years giving the wind farms an…
FaceBook open sources building an energy efficient data center

Apr 7, 2011

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Tom Raftery

in Featured Posts, Technology / Software

Back in 2006 I was the co-founder of a Data Centre in Cork called Cork Internet eXchange. We decided, when building it out, that we would design and build it as a hyper energy-efficient data centre. At the time, I was also heavily involved in social media, so I had the crazy idea, well, […]