Facebook to share green datacentre design with competitors

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The social networking company says its new facility uses 38 per cent less energy than its older datacentres

Facebook has announced it will share the design details of its new energy-efficient datacentre with competitors. Inspired by open source software, the "Open Compute Project" will see Facebook pu...

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