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.
The environmental group Greenpeace International says Facebook should rethink plans for its new Oregon data center and is urging Facebook users to join a group calling for the new facility to run entirely on renewable energy.
Facebook has responded to growing criticism of its reliance upon its power choices for its new data center in Prineville, Oregon. This is one of the first cases in which a data center's energy sourcing has attracted this kind of public attention...
Forget the hard hats and shovels. When it came time to really break ground for its new Oregon data center, the Facebook team used 6,000 pounds of explosives to do some serious earth moving.
Facebook's first company-built data center will be in Prineville, Oregon, the company confirmed today. Facebook says the 147,000 square foot Prineville data center will be designed to LEED Gold standards and is expected to have a Power Usage...
Facebook has decided to begin building its own data centers, and may announce its first facility as soon as tomorrow. The fast-growing social network has previously leased server space from wholesale data center providers.
How many servers or users can one admin can manage? The question is being discussed today at Slashdot. Here are some factoids about admin/server ratios at Facebook and Microsoft.
Will the data center of the future have no central UPS units, and be filled with servers with on-board batteries? The data center team at Facebook believes it should.
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A roundup of news from Interop, including announcements from Force 10 Networks, AFORE Solutions, Sun Microsystems and Avocent. Also, new data and news on social networks Facebook, Twitter and MySpace.
Facebook has expanded its data center space for the fourth time this year. The social network's breakout growth is turning out to be an economic stimulus plan for data center landlords. And its infrastructure isn't just getting bigger, it's...