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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
Facebook Cuts Back on Generators in Sweden
October 31st, 2011 : Rich Miller
Facebook is reducing the number of backup generators by 70 percent at its new data center in Sweden, saying the extraordinary reliability of the regional power grid serving the town of Lulea allows it to rely upon redundant power feeds. Read More
Video: Facebook’s North Carolina Data Center
October 28th, 2011 : Rich Miller
We've often written about the scale of Facebook's data center operations. Here's a glimpse of what a Facebook data center campus looks like from the air - in this case, the facility in Rutherford County, North Carolina. Read More
Facebook Goes Global With Data Center in Sweden
October 27th, 2011 : Rich Miller
Facebook will build a huge new data center in northern Sweden to support the rapid global growth of its users, the company said today. The new data center in Lulea, Sweden will be Facebook's first facility outside the United States. Read More