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.
If you live in the US and you’ve been checking your Facebook feed since Monday morning, chances are it’s been flooded with shots of the solar eclipse that graced the American skies roughly after 10 a.m. Pacific, interspersed with photos of Donald...
According to the Columbus Dispatch, Facebook is behind a planned $750 million data center to be located in New Albany, Ohio. The newspaper cites “sources familiar with the plans,” who have indicated the social network giant will...