
Posted By Darren Bonawitz
Here is an article I want to share from Web Hosting Industry Review written by Justin Lee about Facebook beginning construction of its own data centers.
FaceBook Begins Constructing Data Centers
UPDATE: Facebook confirmed via its blog that it has broken ground on a 117,000 square foot data center in Prineville.
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Social network Facebook (www.facebook.com) is building its own data centers, and may reveal the details of its first data center as early as Friday, according to a report by Data Center Knowledge.
The massive social network has previously housed its servers at wholesale data center providers, but is now at the point where it would be more cost-effective to invest in a custom-built infrastructure.
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