Facebook Funds UT Arlington To Discover Energy Efficiencies For Computer Centers
Facebook has made a multi-year commitment to work with a UT Arlington engineer for a National Science Foundation project related to keeping massive data centers more energy efficient.
The Environmental Protection Agency has reported that the energy used in 2006 by the data center industry was 1.5 percent of the total nationwide energy usage. Experts agree that this usage will top 2 percent soon. As such, savings related to data centers’ efficiency could be in the millions for companies with large data centers such as Facebook.