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Video: Facebook’s ‘Penthouse’ Cooling System
April 19th, 2011 : Rich Miller
This video provides a detailed tour of the "penthouse" cooling system in Facebook's new data center, which uses the upper floor of the building as a large cooling plenum with multiple chambers for cooling, filtering and directing the fresh air used to cool the data center. Read More
Video: Inside Facebook’s Server Room
April 18th, 2011 : Rich Miller
On Friday Facebook opened the doors of its Prineville facility. This video tour provides a look inside the data halls housing thousands of servers that power Facebook, including a closer look at the custom servers, racks and UPS units. Read More
Facebook Installs Solar Panels at New Data Center
April 16th, 2011 : Rich Miller
Facebook has installed a large array of solar panels at its new data center in Prineville, Oregon, placing it among a handful of data centers that use on-site solar power generation at its facilities. Read More
Closer Look: Facebook’s Open Compute Servers
April 7th, 2011 : Rich Miller
With today’s launch if the Open Compute Project, the designs and mechanicals for highly-efficient servers designed by Facebook are available to the rest of the world. What’s special about them? Check out our photo gallery, Closer Look: Open Compute Server to see for yourself . Read More
Facebook Opens its Server, Data Center Designs
April 7th, 2011 : Rich Miller
In a marked departure from industry practice, Facebook is disclosing the designs and specs for its new data center in Prineville, Oregon. The social network today launched the Open Compute Project, through which is its releasing the details of its energy efficient data center design. Dell, Rackspace Hosting and Zynga indicated they would adopt elements of the Open Compute designs. Read More
Facebook Unveils Custom Servers, Facility Design
April 7th, 2011 : Rich Miller
Facebook today unveiled details of its new technology infrastructure, which features custom-built servers, racks and UPS units that will fill its new data center in Prineville, Oregon. The facility is optimized from the two-story structure right down to the servers to reflect the company's vision for energy efficient data center operations. Read More
Facebook’s Appetite for SSD Boosts Fusion-io
March 10th, 2011 : Rich Miller
Facebook's appetite for solid-state storage has made it the largest customer for Fusion-io, which this week announced plans for an initial public offering. Facebook's use of SSD aligns with the company's relentless focus on performance and speed. Read More
Facebook’s Expansion: How Big, How Fast?
February 4th, 2011 : Rich Miller
Is Facebook planning a huge expansion of its data centers? For 2011, the company says it is focused on building its two active projects in Oregon and North Carolina and populating those facilities with servers. Read More
Facebook Seeking NC Data Center Manager
January 26th, 2011 : Rich Miller
Facebook is seeking a Senior Data Center Operations Manager to run the $450 million data center the company is building in Forest City, North Carolina. Read More