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Facebook to Build Second Data Center in NC
October 4th, 2011 : Rich Miller
Facebook has begun construction on a second huge data center in Forest City, North Carolina, even as it prepares to bring its first facility online. Read More
Facebook Building 2nd Data Center in Oregon
July 26th, 2011 : Rich Miller
Facebook will build a second huge data center on its campus in Prineville, Oregon, the company confirmed Tuesday. Facebook will begin construction in October on a facility similar to its existing 300,000 square foot data center. Read More
The ‘Facebook Effect’ and the Data Center Market
July 12th, 2011 : Rich Miller
Facebook says that it will gradually shift its server capacity from leased data centers to company-owned facilities, migrating out of third-party facilities as its leases expire. That means Facebook will be vacating a significant chunk of wholesale data center space between 2015 and 2018. Here's a look at the company's leasing strategy and how it may impact the data center market. Read More
Skype Adding More Servers, Bandwidth
July 11th, 2011 : Rich Miller
Skype is investing in additional servers and bandwidth to prepare for an impending influx of new users from Facebook, which last week announced that it will offer users Skype-powered video calling through the Facebook.com site. Read More
Facebook: 85 Degrees in the ‘Cold’ Aisle
June 23rd, 2011 : Rich Miller
Facebook plans to run its future data centers at warmer temperatures, raising the server inlet temperature as high as 85 degrees. The company said the decision was based on testing at its new Prineville, Oregon facility. Read More
Facebook Readies Its Next Huge Data Center
June 20th, 2011 : Rich Miller
Facebook is moving ahead quickly on construction of its next huge data center. The $450 million project in Rutherford County, North Carolina will be the second company-built data center for Facebook. Read More
Facebook May Get New Neighbors in Prineville
May 27th, 2011 : Rich Miller
Officials in Prineville, Oregon say they are in discussion with two additional companies about building data centers in the town, where Facebook just opened its first company-built data center. Read More
New Software Drives Facebook’s Expansion
May 17th, 2011 : Rich Miller
As Facebook expanded its data center network to Oregon, the data center team ran some large-scale simulations, and used a new software tool to automate the deployment of new server capacity. Read More
Data Center Exec Heiliger to Leave Facebook
May 4th, 2011 : Rich Miller
After four years of building out the web's fastest-growing infrastructure, Facebook VP of Technical Operations Jonathan Heiliger will be leaving the company. Read More