With 2.98 billion monthly active users, Facebook is the third-busiest website on the internet and has built an extensive infrastructure to support its massive user base. Since it launched its first company-built and -operated server farm in Prineville, Oregon, in April 2011, the social media platform has not stopped building new data centers and seeking new data center sites. Facebook's data centers house tens of thousands of computer servers -- networked together and linked to the outside world through fiber optic cables.
After beginning its international data center footprint expansion in Lulea, Sweden, Facebook (FB) is rumored to be considering an Asian presence in South Korea, to support a growing user base in the region.
Each Facebook data center operations staffer can manage at least 20,000 servers, according to Delfina Eberly, Director of Data Center Operations at Facebook.
From the time it enters production, Facebook's data center in Altoona, Iowa, will run exclusively on renewable energy, thanks to a wind project located less than two hours away, the social networking giant announced today.
When a service with 1.15 billion users is not working, what are users to do? The answer is to shift to Twitter and other social media sites and talk about the fact that Facebook is down. Many users have responded with humor rather than angst or...
Facebook has began migrating data to its newly constructed cold storage facility. On Tuesday it opened the facility to reporters, providing a look at a hyperscale implementation of custom-built long-term storage.
Last July 1, the "Leap Second" bug caused many Linux servers to get stuck in a loop, endlessly checking the date and time. At the Internet's busiest data centers, power usage almost instantly spiked by megawatts. Here's a look at Facebook's...
Facebook's data center energy use grew 33 percent in 2012, as the company installed tens of thousands of servers in its new company-built data centers. The company's latest sustainability report documents the company's move to reduce its computing...
Facebook says its new data center in Lulea, Sweden is the most efficient and sustainable. For a closer look, check out our photo feature, Inside Facebook's Lulea Data Center.
Facebook has gone live in Lulea. The company's huge new data center in Sweden is now handling traffic from around the world, marking the first expansion of Facebook's infrastructure beyond the Untied States.
Facebook no longer needs all of the data center space it operates in Silicon Valley, and is now looking for tenants to sub-lease portions of its wholesale data center space in the Santa Clara market.