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    1. Facebook IPO: What the filing reveals about the company’s data centers

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      Facebook IPO: What the filing reveals about the company’s data centers

      To a run a site as massive as Facebook inherently requires a massive infrastructure of data centers. The Web site’s IPO filing on Wednesday sheds some light on just how much it costs to maintain and construct such facilities.

      According to the document, Facebook had $500 million in “non-cancelable contractual commitments as of December 31, 2011, primarily related to equipment and supplies for our data center operations, and to a lesser extent, construction of our data center sites.”

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