Many will likely be watching to see if Facebook can keep it cool and the expenses down.
Wind energy is the cheapest and most extensively deployed form of clean energy around the world.
One gigawatt is equal to a large coal or natural gas plant.
Facebook is not just worried with clean energy for its data centers.
Facebook made those designs open source to the data center community over four years ago.
Facebook will most probably buy the wind power at a fixed low rate over several decades.
If grid energy prices rise, the deal could actually save Facebooks money on its energy bill.
The company then published its hardware plans so other companys data centers can follow suit.
Facebooks other data center locations are in Oregon, Iowa, North Carolina, and Sweden.
source: www.techworm.net
