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Online auction site eBay (EBAY) has chosen a suburb of Salt Lake City as the site for a $334 million data center project. The facility will be near a large new data center for Oracle Corp. (ORCL).

Paul Strong, a distinguished research scientist at eBay, discusses the site's phenomenal growth and infrastructure.

Paul Strong, a distinguished research scientist at eBay, discusses the site's phenomenal growth and infrastructure.

eBay is looking for a site for a new 250,000 square foot data center, and is said to be focusing its search on Arizona and Utah.

eBay Inc. (EBAY) has agreed to pay $79,200 in penalties for permit violations for its use of generators at its Rancho Cordova data center.

PayPal is announcing a two-hour maintenance outage June 18 to "upgrade the PayPal data center."

How do you scale a web architecture to handle 212 million users and up to 1 billion page views per day? eBay's infrastructure gurus tell how they do it.