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Video: Inside Facebook’s Server Room

Posted By Rich Miller On April 18, 2011 @ 11:21 am In Facebook | 26 Comments

The server room at the new Facebook data center in Prineville, Oregon, featuring a hot aisle containment system. (Photo credit: Alan Brandt)

Facebook has published photos and schematics of the design of the servers and systems powering its new data center in Oregon. On Friday we got a look at the real thing, as the company opened the doors of its Prineville facility to a group of journalists and local officials. Facebook Director of Datacenter Engineering Jay Park provided a tour of the data center, which we’ll be presenting in two installments. Today’s video provides a look inside the data halls housing thousands of servers that power Facebook, including a closer look at the custom servers, racks and UPS units the company created for the facility. This video runs about 8 minutes.

See part two [1] of our video tour, which looks at the custom cooling system [1] Facebook created for the Prineville facility. For more about this data center, see our previous coverage:

About Rich Miller [7]

Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.

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URLs in this post:

[1] part two: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/04/19/video-facebooks-penthouse-cooling-system/

[2] Facebook Unveils Custom Servers, Facility Design: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/04/07/facebook-unveils-custom-servers-facility-design/

[3] Facebook Opens Its Server, Data Center Designs: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/04/07/facebook-opens-its-server-data-center-designs/

[4] Closer Look: Facebook’s Open Compute Servers: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/04/07/closer-look-facebooks-new-open-compute-servers/

[5] Facebook Installs Solar Panels at New Data Center: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/04/16/facebook-installs-solar-panels-at-new-data-center/

[6] Will Open Compute Alter the Data Center Market : http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/04/14/will-open-compute-alter-the-data-center-market/

[7] Rich Miller: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/author/richm/

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