Facebook's new messaging product required a new back-end as well. The Facebook Engineering has redesigned its messaging infrastructure, switching from Cassandra to Apache HBase.

Facebook's choice of North Carolina for a new data center highlights the company's focus on energy efficient facilities as the best path to reducing its carbon impact, rather than placing data centers near renewable energy sources, as Greenpeace...

Facebook will invest $450 million in a new data center facility in North Carolina, the company said today. The data center near Forest City in Rutherford County will be Facebook's second company-built data center, following on the facility now be...

Facebook recently retrofitted one of its high-density data centers in Silicon Valley, implementing efficiency improvements that will reduce its annual energy usage by 2.8 million kilowatt hours

Facebook retooled the cooling system in one of its existing data centers in Santa Clara, reducing the facility's annual energy bill by $229,000 and earning a $294,761 rebate from Silicon Valley Power. Here are details of its presentation at the D...

We’ve written a lot about Facebook’s infrastructure, and have compiled this information into the Facebook Data Center FAQ (or "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Facebook's Data Centers").

Greenpeace issues the latest in its ongoing series of critques of Facebook's energy sourcing for its Oregon data center. This time it's a cartoon video.

An analysis of Facebook's spending with data center developers indicates that the company is now paying about $50 million a year to lease data center space, up from about $20 million last year.

Facebook has responded to Greenpeace International's latest critiique, defending its decision to build an energy-efficient custom data center as the best path to reducing its carbon output.