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Facebook Confirms Altoona Data Center

Justin Lafferty — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:47:50 +0000

A day after an Iowa newspaper reported that Facebook’s next data center would be built in that state, Facebook confirmed the plans. The data center in Altoona, Iowa (13 miles northeast of Des Moines) will be Facebook’s fourth owned and operated data center, and the third in the U.S. Facebook Vice President of Infrastructure Jay Parikh described in a blog post why the company is building another data center.

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Facebook Photo Storage Is No Easy Task

Justin Lafferty — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:50:17 +0000

Facebook is more than a social network. It’s also increasingly becoming the place where people store their photos for easy sharing. At the Open Compute Summit Wednesday in Santa Clara, Calif., Facebook Vice President of Infrastructure Engineering Jay Parikh (pictured) talked about how the company works to store the more than 240 billion photos on the social network.

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INFOGRAPHIC: Facebook’s Worldwide Expansion

Justin Lafferty — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 18:03:29 +0000

By now, many people know that Facebook’s headquarters are located in Menlo Park, Calif., just south of San Francisco. But the company has far-flung offices in Ireland, Luxembourg, and India, among several other places. An infographic from BusinessProfiles.com shows where Facebook’s 67 affiliates are located.

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Facebook’s Prineville, Ore., Data Center Addition Will Be Pretty Cool

Justin Lafferty — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:43:22 +0000

We know that Facebook plans to expand its data center in Prineville, Ore. Recent filings show that the new building will be pretty cool — literally. Facebook has given the new center the nickname of Sub-Zero. Wired wrote more about Facebook’s plans for the additional data center.

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Facebook Excels At Going Green

Justin Lafferty — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 14:34:40 +0000

Facebook’s trademark color may be blue, but it’s also known for being green. New figures released Wednesday by the social network show that 23 percent of the company’s energy is renewable. Facebook is also continuing to seek ways to cut back its carbon emissions and increase the percentage of energy coming from clean, renewable sources.

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Facebook Holds Grand Opening For 2nd U.S. Data Center

Jackie Cohen — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:55:14 +0000

Today Facebook held a grand opening for its second data center in the U.S., located in Forest City, North Carolina. continued…

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Swede Officials Will Be Able To Snoop Facebook Traffic

David Cohen — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:12:54 +0000

Facebook is building its newest data center in Luleå, Sweden, because of that town’s frigid climate, but the social network may run into a much hotter regulatory climate in the form of the country’s wiretapping law.

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Facebook Announces Expansion of Oregon Data Center

Jennifer Moire — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:10:14 +0000

Facebook is moving forward with an expansion of its Prineville, Oregon data center earlier than expected thanks to a little help from lawmakers and a much needed power upgrade.
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Facebook Infrastructure Veep Heiliger Leaving

Jackie Cohen — Tue, 03 May 2011 18:33:44 +0000

Jonathan Heiliger, vice president of technical operations at Facebook and the company’s most visible infrastructure executive, announced he is leaving the company at the end of the summer.
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Facebook's Oregon Data Center Holds Grand Opening

Jackie Cohen — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 10:51:21 +0000

Facebook held a grand opening for the Prinville, Oregon data center on Friday, and Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg made an appearance at the Friday evening event with his puppy, Beast.
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Facebook Boosts Site's Availability And Page Load Times

Meredith Singer — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:30:47 +0000

Facebook has improved in availability and page loading times, according to the latest quarterly report by AlertSite.
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Facebook's Technology Can Be Yours Too

Jackie Cohen — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 15:45:26 +0000

Today’s announcement of the Open Compute project has spawned a half a dozen new hardware products released by participating hardware companies.
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Will Facebook Announce 'Green' Initiative April 7?

Jackie Cohen — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 15:58:24 +0000

Facebook is holding a press event at its headquarters next Thursday, April 7, and the invitation’s design suggests that the announcement could involve energy efficiencies at the company.
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Facebook Storage Supplier Fusion-io Will IPO

Jackie Cohen — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:21:54 +0000

Fusion-io filed for an initial public offering today. This storage company powers much of Facebook’s data center in Prineville, Oregon, and will soon do the same for the facility under construction in Rutherford County, North Carolina.
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Prineville, Oregon Wants Facebook To Expand Data Center

Jackie Cohen — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:00:35 +0000

Facebook may expand a data center project in Prineville, Oregon that already covers a space the size of five football fields.
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