Facebook has shown today it is serious about its push to Unfriend Coal. The social networking company published its 2011 energy and carbon footprint data and announced a 2015 goal of powering 25% of the platform with renewable...

If you’ve followed the effort by Greenpeace International and hundreds of thousands of Facebook users around the world to get the social networking platform to Unfriend Coal , you’ll be heartened by today’s news. Facebook ...

Today the tech and business media are all a-twitter about Facebook, after news that company will start constructing its first datacentre outside the United States, close to the Arctic Circle, in Luleå, Sweden. By locating the...

Our new report, How Dirty Is Your Data? , hones in on one U.S. state that is quickly becoming a dirty data epicenter. Facebook, Google, and Apple have all chosen North Carolina as the location for new data center infrastructure...

Top news: TEPCO confirms some spent nuclear fuel rods in number 4 reactor are damaged; Greenpeace sets world record for most Facebook comments in 24 hours; Greenpeace activists dressed as pirates protest against mining company; the...

Top news: Highly radioactive water leaks from Fukushima into the ocean; top Transocean executives are awarded bonuses; BP to resume drilling in Gulf of Mexico; is Facebook ready to Unfriend Coal? #Nuclear: A 20cm crack has been...

Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg has been in the news quite a bit in the last few days. Previously portrayed as a reclusive billionaire who shuns the limelight he’s made couple of big gestures recently. With a reported personal...

Photo Credit: Alan Brandt The switch has been flipped on Facebook’s first owned and operated data center.  As of today, Prineville, Oregon, is home to millions of Facebook status updates, photos and videos. All that data is stored...

Right now a Guinness World Record attempt is underway, and you too can make your mark on history. For the next 24 hours , the Facebook ‘Unfriend Coal’ Campaign is taking aim at the record for most Facebook comments within a 24...