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 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.
Greenpeace grabbed a fresh round of headlines today with a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg restating its objections to Facebook's energy sourcing for its new data center in Oregon.
Facebook says it is always seeking better efficiency, but has no plans to deploy ARM servers in its new Oregon data center, debunking a report on a hardware blog.