Facebook Status Update: We're Opening a Green Data Center

greenercomputing.com (Jan 26 2010) Construction , Cloud Computing , Servers

1. If "Facebook's Green Data Center" were a group, I'd become a fan of it.* The social networking giant and cause of huge losses of productivity around the globe announced last week that it had made plans to open its first company-owned data center, and would take steps to make it among the greenest in the industry. In a post on Facebook (where else?), Jonathan Heiliger, the company's director of technical operations, laid out the 147,000-square-foot facility's claims to green, saying in part, "Along with making sure Facebook operates quickly for you, we wanted to minimize the environmental impact of our new facility and its energy costs. To best achieve those goals, we will use several energy-efficiency technologies, including: (Read Full Article)

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