1. Facebook data center to use evaporative cooling; server heat will warm offices

    DatacenterDynamics (Jan 21 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

    1. Facebook data center to use evaporative cooling; server heat will warm offices Construction has commenced on the popular social networking company Facebook’s first enterprise data center in Prineville, Ore., on Thursday. The facility will use airside economization; its data center floor will be cooled by an evaporative cooling system and some heat from the servers will be recaptured to warm air in the offices. “We have come a long way from our roots in a Harvard dorm room, when Facebook was only available at some colleges and run on a single server,” the company’s VP of Technical Operations Jonathan Heiliger wrote in a blog post. “Now with more than 350 million people worldwide and our service and business continuing to grow, we must constantly scale our technical infrastructure to meet the demand… An important step along the way is to build a custom data center so that we can design it to meet our unique needs.” Until the decision to ... (Read Full Article)

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