Fifth Facebook data centre to be opened in Fort Worth, powered with sustainable energy

In an aim to connect billions of people around the world through Internet.org Facebook announced to open its fifth Facebook data centre at in Fort Worth, Texas. In a blog post Tom Furlong, VP of Infrastructure at Facebook says after Altoona, Prineville, Forest City and Lulea data centre Port Worth will also be powered by 100% renewable energy. Fort Worth will be one of the most advanced and energy efficient data centers in the world and will be powered by sustainable wind energy. He further added, “Our continuing work on data center design is an important part of our overall infrastructure efficiency efforts, which have helped us save more than $2 billion in infrastructure costs over the last three years.” The new data centre will be built through the Open Compute Project which has now more than 200 members and thousands of participants, all collaborating on the development of efficient and sustainable data center technologies.