• Inside Facebook’s NC Data Center Campus

    December 3rd, 2012 : Rich Miller

    Facebook has invested $450 million to build two enormous data centers in Rutherford County, North Carolina.to power its growing Internet infrastructure. We've got photos that provide a closer look at the campus. Read More

  • Facebook Servers Get Hotter, But Run Fine in the South

    November 14th, 2012 : Rich Miller

    Facebook has been able to cool its servers through the North Carolina summer using only fresh air, and no mechanical refrigeration, the company said today. The key to the cooling breakthrough was allowing servers to run at 85 degrees F. Read More

  • Open Compute Wants to Make Biodegradable Servers

    November 8th, 2012 : Rich Miller

    Are you ready for servers that you can put in the compost heap? The Open Compute Project has challenged students at Purdue university to develop a biodegradable server chassis, making data center technology more sustainable. Read More

  • A Hyper-Scale Cloud Data Center, Seen From the Clouds

    November 6th, 2012 : Rich Miller

    What does a cloud data center look like, when viewed from the clouds? The massive expanse of the new Facebook data center in Lulea, Sweden is on display is this aerial video. Read More

  • Facebook Gets Royal Reception in Lulea

    October 26th, 2012 : Rich Miller

    New from Facebook: The royal data center tour. On Oct. 16, King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden toured the new Facebook data center in Lulea, which is currently under construction with a planned launch next year. Read More

  • Facebook Adapts Open Compute for Colo Space

    October 25th, 2012 : Rich Miller

    Will the Open Compute Project's uber-efficient open source hardware designs would ever be available at your local colocation center? It's taken 18 months, but Facebook has now shared details of its first use of Open Compute hardware in its third-party colo space. Read More

  • Estimate: Facebook Running 180,000 Servers

    August 15th, 2012 : Rich Miller

    Like most large data center operators, Facebook doesn't disclose how many servers it has running in its data centers. But James Hamilton has used the company's recent disclosures about its energy usage to do some interesting math to try and put together an estimate. Read More

  • Facebook’s Energy Use Focused in Colo Space

    August 8th, 2012 : Rich Miller

    Facebook has been building some of the world's most efficient data centers. But its leased space accounts for 85 percent of its data center energy use, and will continue to have a big impact on its carbon footprint for several more years. Read More

  • Closer Look: Facebook’s New Server, Storage Designs

    June 27th, 2012 : Rich Miller

    Facebook is ready for act two of its mission to disrupt the data center. Barely a year after unveiling its custom hardware, the social network has retooled its server and storage designs to conform to its Open Rack enclosure, which widens the equipment trays to make servers easier to cool and maintain. Read More

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