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.
Technology industry leaders met with Donald Trump on Wednesday, seeking to persuade a man whose presidential bid many of them opposed to avoid policies they believe would hurt their companies.
Facebook Inc. is so keen to return to China that it built a tool that would geographically censor information in the country, according to the New York Times.
A U.S. safety agency is investigating an accident involving a massive experimental drone Facebook Inc. is developing to bring the internet to remote areas of the world.
It was already one of Facebook’s most ambitious renewable energy data center projects, back when it only had one building. But now that it will need four times the power, will local residents give way?
Changes to the way newer, highly scalable servers consume power made it necessary for the world’s leading colo provider to change the way networks connect to those servers, says Equinix’ chief scientist.
The first tests of a promising new technology in the U.S. based on Facebook’s open source switches, gets under way with the colocation leader in charge...