New York.– After 20 months of mobilizing, agitating and negotiating to green Facebook, the Internet giant has announced its goal to run on clean, renewable energy. More than 700,000 people from all over the world joined to make this victory possible.

Facebook's message to energy producers is clear: invest now in renewable energy, and move away from coal power.

In addition, Greenpeace and Facebook will collaborate in the promotion of renewable energy and encourage major utilities to develop renewable energy sources.

Facebook has also committed to develop programmes with Greenpeace so that Facebook users can save energy and engage their communities in clean energy decisions. The possibilities for helping to empower and mobilise people around the world to launch an energy revolution are staggering.

Facebook has a siting policy that states a preference for access to clean, renewable energy supply for its future data centers – the places where its computers live. Coal power is still a feature of Facebook for now, but as they say in the IT sector – it's been deprecated.