Comments on: Facebook Matures, Will Build Its Own Data Center

By: Can Web Infrastructure Scale Down When Demand Drops?: Cloud Computing News «

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 20:51:00 +0000

[...] a price that doesn’t include the cost of its servers. Additionally, it’s in the process of building an approximately $200 million data center in Prineville, Ore., and a $450 million data center in rural North Carolina. There are a lot of checks going to a lot [...]

By: Web Design Gloucestershire

Web Design Gloucestershire — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:35:47 +0000

Good luck to them, I can only hope that they make best use of sustainable/renewable energy sources as that datacentre is going to require a whole lot a power!!!

By: Twitter to Build Data Center to Beach the Fail Whale

Twitter to Build Data Center to Beach the Fail Whale — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:24:16 +0000

[...] having your own data center is a big milestone for large-scale web services. Facebook announced a data center in January, and despite the lure of the cloud other webscale operations are keeping some of their [...]

By: Structure 2010: Facebook’s Heiliger Warns of Punting on Scaling

Structure 2010: Facebook’s Heiliger Warns of Punting on Scaling — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:57:46 +0000

[...] unforeseen “bottlenecks” that Heiliger said he regrets punting on.) The company is now building its first data center in Oregon, which Heiliger said is due to be turned on soon. But he advised young web startups to do [...]

By: Facebook: A Billion Likes? Don’t Worry Our Infrastructure Can Handle It

Facebook: A Billion Likes? Don’t Worry Our Infrastructure Can Handle It — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 01:47:40 +0000

[...] Facebook has learnt from Google that infrastructure is a vital and a strategic advantage. No wonder they are building their own data centers. I think that is one of the reasons they allow their chief to set audacious goals such as the [...]

By: What’s Up With Twitter’s New Data Center?

What’s Up With Twitter’s New Data Center? — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:04:25 +0000

[...] manages to improve the service for a while, will Twitter ever end up following Facebook, which this year said it would build its own data center so it could control costs and reduce its energy [...]

By: What’s Up With Twitter’s New Data Center?

What’s Up With Twitter’s New Data Center? — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:04:24 +0000

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Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:45:48 +0000

[...] will remain the dominant gatekeeper of our citizens personal data. This week, it was announced that Facebook has finally begun construction of its own data-centre and of course, much ado has been made of Facebook’s continual refinement of its privacy [...]

By: Dave Geada

Dave Geada — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:39:06 +0000

What's amazing is the scale of what it means to "make it" online these days. I remember when "making it" meant going from a shared hosting plan to a dedicated hosting plan. Now we talk about it in terms of owning your own datacenter. It may make for great water cooler discussion, but is owning your own datacenter really that practical? Even for a company as large as Facebook? The answer could be yes if it somehow delivers value to the millions of users of the platform. It could be no if it only serves as a distraction from the company's core mission. Only time will tell.

Dave Geada Vice President of Marketing StrataScale, The Cloud Hosting Experts www.StrataScale.com/physical-cloud

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data center — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:40:06 +0000

The article says: "By choosing Prineville, Facebook avoids paying about $2.8 million a year in taxes for 15 years, and can apply for other waivers as well." This is to say, that if they went elsewhere, they'd pay property taxes one of the luxuries of owning data center real estate. converseley, if they did not use the Oregon property for their use, it would remain status quo - owned by someone & paying property taxes.