Let's wander to his data centers Facebook. They are all based on the idea of open source and an energy efficient design. The largest social network in the world, shared the latest updates on the cost and energy savings of its data centers.
With more than 1.320 million users, Facebook is undoubtedly at the forefront of social media. During his lifetime, the social network built its own datacenters and shared its latest data with ZDNet, revealing the cost and energy savings it attributes to their design.
Facebook: Prineville, Oregon
Over the past three years, Facebook has boasted that it has earned more than $ 1,2 billion from optimizing the hardware and software it uses in its data centers.
In the above image, the flagship building housing the Facebok datacenter appears in Prineville, Oregon. Built by 950 miles of cables and wires.
Prineville consists of 1.560 steel tones, equal to approximately 900 medium-sized cars.
The building is about 332.930 square. feet end-to-end, which is equivalent to a 81 store building.
Prineville was the first Facebook datacenter made by Open Compute Project designs. When it launched, Facebook announced that it was 38% more energy efficient than any leased service, reducing operating costs by 24%
Facebook: Altoona, Iowa
The Facebok datacenter in Altoona is 202 acres, that is 42 acres larger than Disneyland.
The plans of Altoona Data Center Building One were first revealed a year ago. Since then, more than 460 people have worked on the project, and have been recorded over 435.000 labor hours in the ongoing construction of the 476.000 square foot building.
The approval of the regional council is pending, and Facebok designs the second datacenter building. It has already been designed to reflect the first, and so aptly named Altoona 2.
Facebook: Forest City, North Carolina
The campus in Forest City, is 160 acres in North Carolina and started 2012.
Thanks to the efficiency planning provided by the Open Compute Project, Facebook has announced that it has saved 1.2 billions of infrastructure costs and enough energy to power 40.000 homes for a year.
To demonstrate how this energy and cost savings are taking place, Facebook has explained that it reuses computer heat to heat office space during the coldest months.
A cooling evaporator system is used to evaporate water from the inlet air cooling - unlike traditional refrigeration systems that require more energy intensity. This process is highly energy efficient, and minimizes water consumption using outdoor air.
The Forest City center operates 100% with the outside air.
Facebook: Luleå, Sweden
When he went to Sweden, Facebook apparently thought to do things in the Swedish way. It is the first installation of Facebook abroad and has got influences from the design of Ikea buildings.
The driver was called Rapid deployment datacenter design (RDDC), and contains modular and manufacturing principles that are applied to the Facebook datacenter scale.
The RDDC design is based on two concepts: A skeleton is created before all the components, the lighting and the cables are connected to a factory assembly line. The entire construction is driven by a construction site and placed on the frame.
Facebook is testing this approach on the second building under construction in Luleå. The buildings cover an area of about 125.000 square feet., This will be the first Facebook datacenter with RDDC design.
The social network is estimated to have saved enough energy to feed more than 40.000 homes for a year.
But to see what happens during the operation of the website. Facebook estimates it receives an average of six billion likes a day only. During the last 10 years, Facebook data centers have received over 400 billions of photos and sent 7.800.000 million messages.
