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

1. 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 ... (Read Full Article)
   
   

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