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.
Facebook has been able to cool its servers through the North Carolina summer using only fresh air, and no mechanical refrigeration, the company said today. The key to the cooling breakthrough was allowing servers to run at 85 degrees F.
Are you ready for servers that you can put in the compost heap? The Open Compute Project has challenged students at Purdue university to develop a biodegradable server chassis, making data center technology more sustainable.
What does a cloud data center look like, when viewed from the clouds? The massive expanse of the new Facebook data center in Lulea, Sweden is on display is this aerial video.
New from Facebook: The royal data center tour. On Oct. 16, King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden toured the new Facebook data center in Lulea, which is currently under construction with a planned launch next year.
Will the Open Compute Project's uber-efficient open source hardware designs would ever be available at your local colocation center? It's taken 18 months, but Facebook has now shared details of its first use of Open Compute hardware in its third...
Like most large data center operators, Facebook doesn't disclose how many servers it has running in its data centers. But James Hamilton has used the company's recent disclosures about its energy usage to do some interesting math to try and put...
Facebook has been building some of the world's most efficient data centers. But its leased space accounts for 85 percent of its data center energy use, and will continue to have a big impact on its carbon footprint for several more years.
Facebook is ready for act two of its mission to disrupt the data center. Barely a year after unveiling its custom hardware, the social network has retooled its server and storage designs to conform to its Open Rack enclosure, which widens the...
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...