Meet the Facebook Data Center
Facebook is the busiest site on the internet and needs no introduction. Well, ever wonder where your Facebook profiles or uploaded pictures being stored?
Facebook headquarters- Palo Alto, California (Photograph by Don Cruz)
Curently Facebook leases space in about six different data centers in Silicon Valley, located in
- Santa Clara
- San Jose
- San Francisco
Rows of Servers at Santa Clara Data Center. (Photograph by Martin Schoeller for TIME)
The company has also leased space in three wholesale data center facilities in Ashburn, Virginia. Both Santa Clara and Ashburn are key data center hubs.
Lines of Communication Cables connect servers in the center with each other and the entire facility with the outside world. (Photograph by Martin Schoeller for TIME)
In a recent event, Facebook released the designs of its own new data center which is being built in Oregon and in status of finalizing the completion meeting the next week’s formal opening.
The new data center is located in Prineville Oregon which was initiated by a ground breaking ceremony over a year ago (January 21, 2010). The site shelters 147,000 square feet and said to be the most energy-efficient computing warehouses ever built.
Here’s what it looks like. =)
Exterior of the Prineville data center. (Photograph by Alan Brandt)
Server aisles inside the Prineville, Oregon data center. (Photograph by Alan Brandt)
Open Compute server racks. (Photograph by Alan Brandt)
Exhaust fans to remove hot air from data center. (Photograph by Alan Brandt)
Evaporative cooling system for warming and humidifying the air as needed. (Photograph by Alan Brandt)
The Oregon center holds storage and computing capacity equal to approximately half of what Facebook already has today. The company has 690 billion page views each month and has more than 500 million members who upload 100 million photos a day, and make 18,000 comments every second.
In general, as Facebook users, we can aesthetically say that our profiles together with our precious pictures and list of friends are too lucky enough that they are all being housed in those very futuristic racks! So what you think about it? =)
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10 Comments on "Meet the Facebook Data Center"
yeah, lucky pics and comments! lolz. i think its amazing! it must be a cool place duh?! i wonder how loud the sounds of all those servers.
no worries about the loud noise charles, admin and tech staff inside these areas are provided with earplugs
wow! gusto ko makarating jan! sa loob mismo! nice post sir BM! =)
of course you can go inside engr but you have to work there, if you’re gonna tell Mark about your current work, he’ll definitely pirate you, but ask for a million DOLLARS haha
.. and i should work there too! lels!
Amazing Facebook team, im still trying to comprehend how it really works, very organized..100 million photos/day OMFG!
… So this is where my pictures/videos are being saved.. Wow.
Nice post and pics BM. Ibang klase!
Now I know it’s not google plus who can cripple facebook, its brownout!