Facebook has decided to double the size of its intended data center in Oregon previous to the primary part of the development is even erect, the newest sign of the company's quick growth. Facebook said in January that it was constructing its first completely owned data center in Prineville, Oregon, a 147,000-square-foot ability that owes for completion early next year. It's now decided to add another 160,000 square feet of data center space on the identical site.

To gather the requirements of our increasing business, we have resolute to go ahead with the next phase of the project, which was an alternative we put in place while we make changes earlier this year. The second stage be supposed to be over by early 2012," Tom Furlong, Facebook director of site procedure, said on the company's website Friday. Facebook was approaching 400 million users when it publicizes the data center in January. Last month it passed the 500 million mark.