by Scott Merrill, Tech Crunch
An important, but oft-overlooked ancillary benefit to Facebook’s vanity-free and minimalist designs is that they involve less waste, both in the production process but also in the disposal process. When you’re buying thousands of servers, this becomes a very important ecological issue. Computer waste is a serious environmental concern, and too many consumers of technology ignore the consequences of disposal. Recognizing that their data center headaches couldn’t possibly be unique, Facebook shared all of their design specifications, CAD drawings, and reference materials under open licenses to their newly formed Open Compute Project. The reason for this decision, as Michael said in his presentation, is that “openness always wins.”
http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/31/open-compute-project-can-facebook-help-save-the-world/
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