A new report tracks what percentage of social media advertising dollars by automakers go to which platforms. It reveals that Tesla has one of the strongest social media profiles even though it has no advertising budget.
Zuckerburg and Facebook have hired an offshoot of the Daily Caller to fact check climate news on the world’s largest social media site. What could possibly go wrong?
American power and energy company Dominion Energy announced in conjunction with Facebook on Monday that it would add six new solar facilities in Virginia and North Carolina totaling 350 megawatts (MW) for the sole purpose of supplying electricity to Facebook’s local operations.
Several of America’s largest corporations have banded together to make it easier for businesses to access clean, renewable energy. The goal is to have tens of thousands of partners in 5 years.
2018 saw a number of different divestments from global institutions in the fossil fuel sector and their subsidiaries. While the move likely won’t fix global warming, it has changed the way in which citizens understand how deeply rooted many organizations are in coal, oil, and gas companies. After divesting, firms also shudder at the thought of being de-platformed. Consider the advertising giant Google, for instance.
Global non-governmental environmental organization Greenpeace and internet giant Amazon are trading blows over a report published earlier this week by Greenpeace, which claims that Amazon Web Services is only meeting 12% of its renewable energy commitment in Virginia’s “data center alley.”
Study finds 7/10 wind energy developers had no Facebook page for their projects. Only 2 were doing anything on Twitter.
Almost 100 organizations led by major corporations such as Amazon, Google, and Heineken have signaled their willingness this week to do more on climate action and have urged European governments to make it easier to invest in and directly source renewable energy.
Online searches can say a lot about which car brands are attracting the most interest online. According to Car Buzz, “Car sales and research website Select Car Leasing has just published the results of … a year’s worth of Google search data to find out which car brands were the most queried.” And, apparently, “Elon Musk’s tweets are winning the SEO war” (as well as the Twitter race).
The tech industry is the largest consumer of renewable energy as companies like Google, Amazon, and Facebook seek to satisfy investors they are operating in an environmentally friendly manner. As the internet of things expands exponentially, power usage by data centers will increase significantly.
