1. Facebook’s number of servers soar to an estimated 180K

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    Facebook’s number of servers soar to an estimated 180K

    Amazon’s web infrastructure guru James Hamilton uses Facebook’s recently released energy data to make an educated guess for how many servers Facebook now has: potentially 180,000. That’s up from an estimated 30,000 in the winter of 2009, and 60,000 by the Summer of 2010.

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