Thread: Facebook commence Building Its Own Data Centers

Facebook has chosen to invest in building its own storage unit, a data center of 14 000 m² located in Oregon...

We cannot count the number of short interest in records of Facebook, the first community platform in the world. Billions of pictures stored members to no end of social games that Rise ... A complete ecosystem that weighs heavily in storage space and bandwidth as you can imagine. Thus, in order to acquire a first-class infrastructure, Facebook has decided to launch a site of importance in Prineville, Oregon, that its data center. The choice of Prineville is surprising, but hopeful for the people of this economically depressed region where unemployment reached 17.4%.

The data center of Facebook will be a very secure structure of 14 000 square meters which will eventually allow the company to no longer have to rent its storage space as is currently the case. If Facebook has chosen Oregon, is - according to The Oregonian - due to a favorable climate, aid and tax credits, and interest and cost competitive energy. Besides, the building is presented as being eco-responsible as will be used to promote modern methods of energy conservation. The construction of the building should take about a year and mobilized 200 workers, while the data-center operating employ 35 people full time.