Facebook Announces Doubling of Data Center and Runs into Buzzsaw of Criticism

EnterpriseITplanet.com / Green (Aug 15 2010) Carbon Footprint , Emissions

1. As many of you know, social media giant Facebook is building a new green data center in Prineville, Oregon. The data center isn't completed yet, but before the first server is turned on the company has already announced plans to exercise a built-in option to expand Phase II of the project, essentially doubling its initial size. The expansion comes as a result of the company's incredible growth, with over 500 million registered users. Facebook stores 50 billion photos, requiring between 500 and 800 TB of storage space. Its servers support 100 billion hits per day and generate 130 TB of logs every day with 2 trillion objects being cached. All this computing power means giant data farms are a critical part of Facebook's future, such as the one being built in Oregon. Almost as soon as the company announced its plan to build the Prineville data center ... (Read Full Article)

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