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Cloak & Dagger: Iowa’s Secret Courtship of Facebook
May 20th, 2013 : Rich Miller
What goes on behind the scenes in winning a "codename" data center project? The Des Moines Register takes readers inside this previously secret site selection process in "How Iowa Landed Facebook," which provides details of the state of Iowa's courtship of "Project Catapult." Read More
Facebook Decloaks, Confirms Plans for Iowa Server Farm
April 23rd, 2013 : Rich Miller
It's official: Facebook will build a massive data center in Altoona, Iowa. After a year of secret scouting missions, the social network today decloaked and confirmed its plans to invest $299.5 million to build the first phase of a three-building campus. Read More
Report: Facebook is Iowa’s Mystery Data Center Prospect
April 20th, 2013 : Rich Miller
One of the longest-running mysteries in the data center industry appears to be solved. Facebook is the company behind a $1.5 billion data center project bound for Altoona, Iowa, according to local media. Read More
Facebook Unveils Live Dashboard for PUE, Water Use
April 18th, 2013 : Rich Miller
Facebook has launched a public dashboard that provides up to the minute data on the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of its first two company-built data centers in Oregon and North Carolina. Read More
Video: How Facebook Manages Data Centers at Scale
March 6th, 2013 : Rich Miller
When you're adding servers and data centers as fast as Facebook, standardization and automation are your best friends. At the Open Compute Summit in January, Facebook's Delfina Eberly provided an overview of how the company uses standardization and automation to manage data centers at Internet scale. Read More
Facebook Builds Exabyte Data Centers for Cold Storage
January 18th, 2013 : Rich Miller
Facebook has built a dedicated data center at its Prineville, Oregon campus that could house older photos in a separate "cold storage" system that dramatically slash the cost of storing and serving these files. Read More
Facebook Tests Immersion Cooling
December 21st, 2012 : Rich Miller
Will submerged servers come to Facebook? The social network is the latest company to conduct tests in which servers are submerged in dielectric fluid. Read More
Facebook Now Hosts 220 Billion Photos
December 14th, 2012 : Rich Miller
Facebook now hosts 220 billion photos, with another 300 million photos being uploaded every single day, which works out to more than 208,000 photo uploads every minute of the day. The company's data centers house more than 100 petabytes of photos and videos. Read More
The Evolution of Facebook’s Data Center Cooling
December 4th, 2012 : Rich Miller
Facebook is making some changes in a phase of its fresh air cooling system that manages humidity and heat removal. The Facebook's data center team provided a walk through the company's two data centers in North Carolina to illustrate the differences between the old and new systems. Read More