Inside the Facebook Green Data Centre: Pictures
In the midst of wide open spaces of farm and grazing land, the central Oregon town of Prineville (population 9,253) has a new type of farm: farms producing Web services that interconnect people. Like horses, cows and sheep data centres need water, fresh air and plenty of space, and the Facebook green data centre is the most well-known.
Unlike a farm, a data centre is mechanical and use electricity – lots of electricity. With the Columbia River about 80 miles away, providing hydroelectric power, Prineville has this in plenty, and this is why the world’s largest social network decided about four years ago to build its first wholly owned data centre in Prineville.
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