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Why Facebook’s IPO is Good for the Data Center Industry
May 18th, 2012 : Rich Miller
Facebook 's IPO will be good news to many of Facebook's employees and investors. But it also is a positive development for the data center industry, providing Facebook with lots of capital and motivation to wield it in ways that satisfy Wall Street analysts and the company's investors. And that means building more data centers. Read More
Facebook’s North Carolina Data Center Goes Live
April 20th, 2012 : Rich Miller
Facebook is now running its custom Internet infrastructure in a warmer climate. Facebook's new data center in Forest City, North Carolina is online and has begun serving live traffic, the company said Thursday. Read More
George Takei Helps Facebook Debug MySQL
March 7th, 2012 : Rich Miller
Star Trek veteran George Takei has made memorable cameo appearances on network TV shows, including Heroes, The Big Bang Theory, Celebrity Apprentice - and now on the Facebook Engineering blog. Read More
Facebook’s $1 Billion Data Center Network
February 2nd, 2012 : Rich Miller
Facebook has invested more than $1 billion in the infrastructure that powers its social network, which now serves more than 845 million users a month around the globe. The company spent $606 million on servers, storage, network gear and data centers in 2011, and expects to spend another $500 million this year. Read More
Facebook Has Spent $210 Million on Oregon Data Center
January 30th, 2012 : Rich Miller
Facebook has invested $210 million to build and equip the first phase of its new data center in Prineville, Oregon, which has a capacity of 28 megawatts of power, the company and local economic development officials revealed this week. Read More
Facebook Faces Taxing Problem In Prineville
January 23rd, 2012 : John Rath
A property tax dispute in Oregon is focused on Facebook's Prineville data center, prompting the Oregon Department of Revenue and local legislators searching for a fix. Read More
Google Energy Czar Weihl Moves to Facebook
December 20th, 2011 : Rich Miller
Bill Weihl, who was the "Green Energy Czar" at Google, will begin a similar position at Facebook next month. Weihl's hiring comes as Facebook is deepending its commitment to use renewable energy as part of an agreement with Greenpeace. Read More
Facebook Brings Open Compute into its Colo Space
December 6th, 2011 : Rich Miller
Facebook developed its Open Compute servers for its custom-built data centers. But the social network will soon be deploying those servers in some of its leased data center space as well. Read More
Facebook: No Plans for Taiwan Data Center
November 9th, 2011 : Rich Miller
In the wake of market rumors and press coverage that made the rounds yesterday, Facebook says it has no plans to build a data center in Taiwan. Read More