Now, I'm not normally very inclined to get involved in environmental activism...or activism of any kind really, but an 'Unfriend Coal' Greenpeace talk that we went to in Trinity College on Monday night seems to have changed that. I've become a rabid Greenpeace sticker sticking vandal, plastering any likely space with the things in a sort of environmentalist frenzy. Maybe it's just the vandal in me.
Greenpeace want Facebook to switch to renewable energy to power their vast and growing data centres, where they store all of the various nonsenses that we put up all over the face space. Their idea is that if Facebook do it there'll be a sort of domino effect and the other big internet companies will feel pressure to switch too.
The really startling fact for me was that the internet is the fifth largest consumer of energy, when ranked with countries - so that's AHEAD of most countries in the world. And that was only in 2007, before cloud computing had really taken off. Apparently it is possible to make the switch to renewable relatively easily.
If you want to know more, and hopefully join the campaign - visit greenpeace.org or join their Facebook page
And best of all, watch this hilarious video...
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