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.
As it invests hundreds of millions of dollars in building its own data centers around the world, Facebook is also continuing to invest in third-party data center space data center space in Silicon Valley and northern Virginia. The decision is tied...
With more than 900 million active users, Facebook is the busiest site on the Internet and has built an extensive infrastructure to support this rapid growth. We've compiled Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Facebook’s Data Centers into a...
Facebook 's IPO will be good news to many of Facebook's employees and investors. But it also is a positive development for the data center industry, providing Facebook with lots of capital and motivation to wield it in ways that satisfy Wall...
Facebook is now running its custom Internet infrastructure in a warmer climate. Facebook's new data center in Forest City, North Carolina is online and has begun serving live traffic, the company said Thursday.
Star Trek veteran George Takei has made memorable cameo appearances on network TV shows, including Heroes, The Big Bang Theory, Celebrity Apprentice - and now on the Facebook Engineering blog.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.