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 appears to be spending between about $20 million to $25 million a year for the data center space that houses its servers, according to an analysis of the company's data center infrastructure.
If your users are uploading 40 million photos a day, what does your data center look like? A new video provides a look at one of Facebook's data center facilities.
If your users are uploading 40 million photos a day, what does your data center look like? A new video provides a look at one of Facebook's data center facilities.
Facebook has recently signed two leases for additional data center space as it expands its infrastructure to support the social network's phenomenal growth.
Executives of Facebook and Twitter recently ended several weeks of serious talks, in which Facebook was offering to acquire Twitter for $500 million of its stock.
Facebook is reportedly spending more than $1 million a month on power for its data centers as it deals with an enormous volume of user-generated content.
Last week we picked up on a report of what appeared to be a significant pending announcement that Facebook and Dell are "working together on a project that will represent 'the next generation of cloud computing,'" noting that although there's...