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.

What goes on behind the scenes in winning a "codename" data center project? The Des Moines Register takes readers inside this previously secret site selection process in "How Iowa Landed Facebook," which provides details of the state of Iowa's...

One of the longest-running mysteries in the data center industry appears to be solved. Facebook is the company behind a $1.5 billion data center project bound for Altoona, Iowa, according to local media.

Facebook has launched a public dashboard that provides up to the minute data on the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of its first two company-built data centers in Oregon and North Carolina.

When you're adding servers and data centers as fast as Facebook, standardization and automation are your best friends. At the Open Compute Summit in January, Facebook's Delfina Eberly provided an overview of how the company uses standardization...

Facebook now hosts 220 billion photos, with another 300 million photos being uploaded every single day, which works out to more than 208,000 photo uploads every minute of the day. The company's data centers house more than 100 petabytes of photos...

Facebook is making some changes in a phase of its fresh air cooling system that manages humidity and heat removal. The Facebook's data center team provided a walk through the company's two data centers in North Carolina to illustrate the...