How are global data storage companies performing from a green IT perspective? Where is Facebook currently heading and where do eBay or Amazon stand? You can read about this and much more in our overview. The Internet is increasingly connected to our lives, which naturally has many advantages. After all, all the information in the world is just a few clicks away from you. But for all information to have its anchor and for you to be able to browse back and forth between pages, countless servers are needed, which are hosted in gigantic buildings called data centers (abbreviated DC - one smaller one is our DC6, but we can't yet compare with Facebook's data center.) What's certain in this industry is that data multiplies like rabbits and data centers have an increasingly significant share in global electricity consumption. This is also the main reason why using clean energy sources to operate data centers is the right choice. Overview of global data storage companies and their fight against carbon footprint 
A whole year on Facebook has the same carbon footprint as making one Caffè Latte The data center in the image is Facebook's latest green project, which will be built in Fort Worth, Texas. The company comments on the entire project: "Along with our Altoona, Prineville, Forest City and Lulea data centers, Fort Worth will be one of the cornerstones of the global infrastructure that transfers billions of pieces of information through Facebook applications and services every day."
What's interesting from our perspective is the fact that Facebook's new DC will be 100% powered by renewable energy sources thanks to a 200 MW wind power plant. The generated (wind-blown) energy will be added to the Texas grid as early as 2016 in cooperation with Citigroup Energy, Alterra Power Corporation, and Starwood Energy Group. Facebook in the new DC also addresses cooling with outdoor air through freecooling instead of energy-intensive air conditioning. "Thanks to our focus on efficiency and investments in the development and utilization of renewable energy sources, it's possible to compare the carbon footprint of producing one medium Caffè Latte with the impact of one person's Facebook use for an entire calendar year. This also makes us at Greendata happy, because it means that our Greenhousing.cz and its data center DC6.cz are still on the right path of operating internet services even after years of operation.
Facebook shares its data center plans through the Open Compute Project, so all companies planning to build a data center can learn from them, which we applaud! red