Facebook plans by 2018 to use 50% renewable energy

Facebook set itself the objective to the end of 2018 to make half of its operations using energy from renewable sources and eventually in a long term expects to achieve 100% . 

The company also plans to build a data center in Fort Worth, Texas, which will operate entirely with renewable energy, announced the Facebook site.

A growing number of technology companies are turning to renewables for their data centers and other business areas, which consume significant amounts of energy.

Google gets 35% of its energy from renewable sources. All data center Apple has also used such energy.

"In 2012, we aimed to reach 25% renewable energy in our data centers by the end of the  year," said Facebook’s Vice President Jay Parikh. "In the long term we plan to reach 100%. We set a short-term goal to reach 50% by the end of 2018 ".

The Facebook’s data center in Fort Worth, Texas will be the fifth for the company. It will work with the energy of a 200-megawatt wind farm, which is located less than 161 km away.