• 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

  • Video: Facebook’s Next-Generation Servers

    December 3rd, 2012 : Rich Miller

    Last week Data Center Knowledge got a tour of Facebook's North Carolina campus, which now houses two huge data centers. This video takes you into the data halls of both buildings in Rutherford County to demonstrate how the company's Open Rack, server and storage designs have evolved. Read More

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