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Facebook CEO Gifts Solar-Powered Drone to Pope Francis

Satya Sivani — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 10:46:09 +0000

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has presented Pope Francis an unusual gift – a model Solar-Powered Drone – on Monday at the Vatican. Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla saw the Pope at the Vatican. Mark wrote in his Facebook post “We told him how much we admire his message of mercy and tenderness, and […]

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Leading Tech Giants Form Breakthrough Energy Coalition

Mila Luleva — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 20:58:21 +0000

Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates are about to join forces with other world leading companies to fight climate change by funding innovations in the clean energy sector. If yesterday the common thing between Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, Virgin, HP, Linkedin, Alibaba (and a few others) was that they are all lead companies, today it goes much further. A day […]

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Facebook’s New Data Center Powered by 200 MW Texas Wind Farm

Satya Sivani — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 19:32:24 +0000

Facebook announced that its fifth privately owned and second 100 percent renewable energy powered data center is being built at Fort Worth, Texas, with $1 billion. To suffice for the data center’s energy requirements, Facebook is co-developing a 200 MW wind farm in collaboration with the local energy companies – Citigroup Energy, Alterra Power Corporation, and […]

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Facebook to Launch Solar-Powered Drones for Internet Connectivity

Satya Sivani — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 05:12:08 +0000

To provide online connectivity to remote and inaccessible locations, Facebook is developing Internet-beaming drones with an aim of bringing 5 Billion people without internet access online. India could be the first Country where Facebook deploys them. Last month, the first test flight of the drone was successfully completed in UK. To Connect the world from the sky, […]

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Facebook Solar Powered Drones to Provide Worldwide Internet Access

Mila Luleva — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 14:24:46 +0000

Ever since Titan Aerospace introduced their design of a solar-powered drone that can fly in the sky for five years before it has to come back to earth, it has become a subject of a major interest to many corporate giants. Facebook seems to be one of them and they have quite a big plan […]

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