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REPORT: Facebook To Build $1.5B Data Center In Altoona, Iowa

David Cohen — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:31:13 +0000

Facebook plans to build a $1.5 billion data center in Altoona, Iowa, joining its existing facilities in Prineville, Ore.; Forest City, N.C.; and Luleå, Sweden, the Des Moines Register reported.

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How Efficient Are Facebook’s Data Centers?

David Cohen — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:27:14 +0000

Facebook is going public with the results of its efficiency efforts at its data centers in Prineville, Ore., and Forest City, N.C., debuting two public dashboards that display real-time data for the data centers’ PUE (power usage effectiveness) and WUE (water usage effectiveness) levels.

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Facebook Taps Opscode Private Chef For Configuration, Management Of Servers

David Cohen — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 12:59:50 +0000

How does Facebook manage its ever-growing plethora of servers, configurations, administrative access policies, and the other tasks that go along with its volumes of data? Part of that answer now lies in Private Chef from cloud infrastructure automation provider Opscode.

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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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A Tale Of Two Facebook Data Centers

David Cohen — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 13:18:08 +0000

This past April, Facebook began operations at its second data center in the U.S., in Forest City, N.C., which joined its already existing facility in Prineville, Ore. But how does the social network deal with the differences in climate between the two locations?

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Facebook VP Of Infrastructure Engineering Jay Parikh Talks Big Data, Project Prism

David Cohen — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:41:19 +0000

Facebook Vice President of Infrastructure Engineering Jay Parikh offered up some data on big data at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., Wednesday, sharing statistics with reporters and describing the social network’s Project Prism data-management effort.

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Facebook Eyes Expansion Of Oregon Data Center

David Cohen — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 15:48:49 +0000

Facebook filed an application with the city of Prineville, Ore., to construct a new data center near the 334,000-square-foot facility it opened in April 2011 and the twin building it is erecting next door .

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Next Up On Facebook’s Data Center List: Taiwan

David Cohen — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:17:05 +0000

Facebook will follow up its announcement of a European data center in Luleå, Sweden, with a similar initiative in Asia, at Central Taiwan Science Park.

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Watch Facebook's Open Compute Summit Here

Jackie Cohen — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:15:18 +0000

Facebook is hosting an Open Compute summit to discuss the latest innovations in data center design. We’ve embedded a live video feed of it below, and later that same spot will have a recording of the presentations after the event finishes.

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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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Greenpeace Aims To Break Facebook Comment Record

Jorge Cino — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:07:02 +0000

As nearly 50,000 responses to a single Facebook post have gone up within about 8 hours, Greenpeace appears well on its way to breaking a world record.
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LIVE At Facebook's Open Compute Project Announcement!

Jackie Cohen — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 13:23:22 +0000

We are seated in Facebook’s cafeteria as Mark Zuckerberg is discussing how Facebook’s servers and data center facilities are working more efficiently and reducing the use of coal-based power. The content of this announcement jibes with what we’d predicted in our previous post about the event. Be sure to hit the hard refresh keys on your machine to keep up with our live updates of this post.
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Greenpeace To Facebook: Unfriend Coal By Earth Day

Jackie Cohen — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 10:48:55 +0000

Greenpeace has turned up the volume on its calls for Facebook to stop using coal to power its data centers, by setting a deadline of Earth Day, April 22.
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Facebook Begins Building Its Own Data Centers

Nick O'Neill — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:56:09 +0000

Rather than continuing with large leasing agreements as the company scales its user base, Facebook is deciding to develop their own data centers according to Rich Miller of Data Center Knowledge. The news comes at a time when Facebook is racing toward 400 million users. Given that the company has become “cash flow positive” and has more cash from the most recent DST investment, building their own data center makes more sense.
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