NEW YORK - The data center is usually a well-kept secret of great Internet company - Facebook is now taking a different path. The world's largest online network will disclose all information on its new U.S. data center: computer design, power supplies, building planning.
With the "Open Computer Project" to other companies benefit from the advances of the online network, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said at the presentation of the initiative on Thursday.
Data centers are the engine room of the Internet, so to speak. Environmentalists criticize them for their high power consumption, which also goes back to the cooling of the other hot running computer. Facebook claims to have set in its new data center in Prineville in the U.S. state of Oregon new efficiency-brands. The server farm is 38 percent more energy efficient and operate almost a quarter cheaper than current conventional systems. Partner at the Facebook initiative, the chip maker Intel and AMD and the computer manufacturer Hewlett-Packard and Dell.
Facebook, with its 600 million members, has been turn over huge Datenmangen. In recent years, the online network, the server capacity was hired from other providers - and that was inflexible, "said technical director Jonathan Heiliger. "It was like with my first landlord, who said I could paint the walls any color as long as it is white."
The unusual initiative intended to demystify the largest expenditure item in the online business, said saint. Smaller companies, however, already operate their own server farms no rent, but rather capacity at cloud-computing providers such as the online retailer Amazon. The progress in the operation of data centers are in the industry as a competitive advantage and are of great players such as Google and Amazon also treated. Much speculation also gave a huge data center that will take Apple in the spring in use.
