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Greenpeace wants Facebook center off coal fuel

Greenpeace said Wednesday that half-a-million Facebook users have now joined their campaign calling for the online social network to cancel plans to buy electricity from a coal-based energy company for its new data center.Facebook announced its plan in January to build a large data center in Prineville, Oregon, saying that the new facility would run on coal.  In a letter sent Wednesday to Facebook?s Founder Mark Zuckerberg, Greenpeace International Executive Director Kumi Naidoo said Facebook would jeopardize its reputation and financial health if it dismissed the environmental impacts of the move.Facebook ?has an increasingly essential role to play in helping to drive the deployment of renewable energy sources needed to avert the most devastating possible effects of our changing climate," wrote Naidoo in the letter.?No global business leader, particularly not one who reaches so many people daily, could deny that in this time it is both a threat to a company?s reputation and financial health risk to igno

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