August 1, 2012 by Chris Taylor Like+1SharePin ItShare Facebook revealed its 2011 carbon footprint on Wednesday — that is, the amount of planet-warming carbon dioxide its offices and data centers’ energy usage is responsible for. The figure was good enough to earn the social network kudos from Greenpeace — and allowed it to look down its nose at less environmentally-friendly tech rivals, such as Google.Facebook’s total energy usage last year measured 532 million Kilowatt hours; minus the 36% of its energy the company gets from renewable and nuclear sources, that led to 285,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions. Compare that with the most recent annual total for Google: 1.5 million tons of CO2 in 2010.
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Facebook: Better for the Planet than Google
