Facebook strengthens its infrastructure to support the next one billion users. The company announced on Tuesday that it is building a huge data center in Fort Worth, Texas.
The constructions are already in development and project it will consist of three buildings of 23.226 square meters on an area of 111 hectares.
When the new Fort Worth Data Center at the end of 2016 is completed, 100% of 200 wind energy megawatt will be fed and cooled using outside air instead of air conditioners.
Ken Patchett, director of the ambitious project Reported in a publication that the data center will help improve the growing global social infrastructure supported by Facebook as well as Internet.org, the social network service, which aims to offer free internet in emerging markets.
The Forth Worth data center will then play an important role in Facebook's global ambitions. The social network already has 1.500.000 users. The number is more than half the number of users of the Internet and continues to grow.
Meanwhile, the social network's CEO Mark Zuckerberg said earlier this year that he would like Internet.org to be available in 100 countries by the end of 2015. In countries like India, of course, there is a backlash from critics who argue that the initiative violates the principles of net neutrality, as reported by Mashable.
The Forth Worth data center will be Facebook's fifth data center (and the fourth in USA). The largest social network, it currently has facilities in Iowa, Oregon, North Carolina and Sweden.
The social network also announced that it plans to create at least 40 jobs in Fort Worth to help boost the local economy.
