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2. Data center rivals Facebook and Google pump $700M in new construction into Iowa
  
  Explore GigaOM Apr 23 2013 Construction , Cloud Computing
  
  ...summer and your Facebook likes and photos will start traveling over the data center in late 2014 according to Tom Furlong, vice president of site operations at Facebook. He said that while newspaper reports placed the va...
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3. Facebook Decloaks, Confirms Plans for Iowa Server Farm
  
  Explore Data Center Knowledge Apr 23 2013 Construction
  
  ...r and power. “We’ve got 200 acres, so it’s enough property to scale into three buildings if we need to,” said Tom Furlong, Vice President of Site Operations at Facebook. “We have data centers on the West Coast in Oregon ...
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4. Facebook's Data Center: Where Likes Live
  
  Explore InformationWeek Mar 6 2013 Construction , Cloud Computing
  
  ...petitive advantage is in our software and the service we deliver," not in the design of the data center, said Tom Furlong, Facebook director of site operations, in the announcement of the Engineering News-Record award. J...
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5. Facebook Now Hosts 220 Billion Photos
  
  Explore Data Center Knowledge Dec 14 2012
  
  ... of photos and videos. “That is a fantastic amount of information,” says Facebook director of site operations Tom Furlong in this video from “How Do They Do It?”, which is one of the better video tours we’ve seen. It inc...
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6. How Facebook Cools Servers With Hot Southern Air
  
  Explore Wired News Nov 23 2012 Power and Cooling , Servers
  
  ... filled with water, the water mist won’t help. “If the air is 100 degrees and it’s 90 percent humidity,” says Tom Furlong, the vice president of data center site operations at Facebook, “I can’t inject more moisture into...
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7. Facebook's low power storage data center
  
  Explore greenm3.com Aug 17 2012 Construction , Servers , Storage
  
  ...t six to nine months. They’re designing a hard-disk storage server that powers off when it’s not in use, says Tom Furlong, vice president of site operations at Facebook. “It’s going to sit in a dedicated building that is...
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8. Facebook building deep storage buildings at data centers
  
  Explore GigaOM Aug 16 2012 Construction , Fossil Fuel , Cloud Computing , Storage
  
  ...execs. Facebook is also building a deep storage facility at its data center in North Carolina, said Facebooks Tom Furlong. Facebook building deep storage buildings at data centers * By Katie Fehrenbacher * No Comments * ...
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9. The controversial world of clean power and data centers
  
  Explore GigaOM Jul 11 2012 Construction , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell , Solar
  
  ...ophy that renewable energy should be provided through the utility.” Likewise Facebook’s VP of Site Operations Tom Furlong, told me: “The utility is the obvious location [for clean power]. It would be a lot easier if the ...
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10. 10 reasons Apple, Facebook & Google chose North Carolina for their mega data centers
  
  Explore GigaOM Jul 10 2012 Construction , Fuel Cell , Solar
  
  ...x decision. “We consider probably 50 different factors when we pick a site for one of our data centers,” says Tom Furlong, VP of site operations at Facebook. According to a GigaOM Pro report (subscription required), Micr...
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11. Yahoo: Facebook Treading On Our Server Patents
  
  Explore Data Center Knowledge May 4 2012 Construction , Cloud Computing , Servers
  
  ...Facebook’s data centers,” Yahoo wrote. That appears to be a reference to Facebook Director of Site Operations Tom Furlong, who previously worked for the Yahoo data center team. It’s hard to tell whether this is a serious...
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12. Facebook Hosts Grand Opening for New North Carolina Data Center
  
  Explore Baltimore commercial real estate news Apr 19 2012 Construction
  
  ... building and beginning to serve user traffic from the facility. Facebook's Vice President of Site Operations Tom Furlong and Data Center Manager George Henry joined N.C. Deputy Secretary Dale Carroll, members of the leg...
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13. The Yahoo Factor
  
  Explore Data Center Knowledge Nov 16 2011 Hydro , Cloud Computing
  
  ... the photo above are purple-clad Yahoo team members (from left) Kevin Timmons, Lars Rabbe, Scott Noteboom and Tom Furlong. Timmons now directs the data center effort for CyrusOne, Rabbe is presently the CIO of Skype, Fur...
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14. 'Unfriend Coal' Campaign Moves Facebook to Go Greener
  
  Explore Green Technology Oct 27 2011
  
  ...d site. "Facebook has more users outside the United States than inside," Facebook Director of Site Operations Tom Furlong told The Associated Press. "It was time for us to expand in Europe." Furlong said European users w...
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15. Facebook makes friends near Arctic Circle with data center announcement
  
  Explore DatacenterDynamics Oct 27 2011 Power and Cooling
  
  ...has not ruled out the possibility of other sites in Europe, according to Facebook director of site operations Tom Furlong....
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