Category: environmental

Facebook used 86 percent renewable energy in 2019

Post author By Randall
Post date July 7, 2020
Categories In Climate Change, data center, environmental, Facebook, greenhouse gas emissions, heat, News, odense, renewable energy, solar, sustainability, sustainability report, Tech, tomorrow, water, wind

[ad_1] Facebook says its Menlo Park headquarters is 100 percent supported by renewable energy, and it diverts 90 percent of its waste away from landfills through recycling and composting. Four of Facebook’s US data center buildings earned LEED Gold certification, and one building in Sweden earned LEED Platinum certification, the highest rating possible. In the […]

Tesla receives permission to continue working on its German Gigafactory

Post author By Randall
Post date February 21, 2020
Categories In business, court, environmental, forest, gear, german, germany, gigafactory, green, permission, Tech, Tesla, Transportation

[ad_1] Last week, Tesla was ordered to stop clearing the forest plot while the court reviewed a complaint from the environmental group Green League of Bradenburg. Activists were upset that Tesla was allowed to begin clearing the land before the company received all of the necessary building permits, and they accused the court of granting […]