Facebook shares specs for its energy efficient computer servers

04/08/2011
By Victoria Schlesinger

While Facebook has been heavily criticized by Greenpeace for using energy from coal-fired power plants to run their energy-hungry computer servers, the social networking company yesterday made public their design efforts to reduce their energy consumption. They say their open-source hardware initiative called Open Compute Project has improved energy efficiency by 38 percent, and they hope by sharing the information others will follow suit. The company said they think energy efficiency is more important than the energy source. That’s sure to draw some fire. [Read more - San Francisco Chronicle]

Tags: coal-fired power plants, computer servers, energy efficiency, facebook, open compute project

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