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The Green Data Landlord: Digital Realty Procures Solar Power for Facebook

By Rich Miller - January 24, 2019 2 Comments

In a hyperscale deal that reflects the intersection of power and data, Digital Realty has procured 80 megawatts of solar power for Facebook in Northern Virginia.

Tagged With: Ashburn, Digital Realty, Facebook, Northern Virginia, Solar

The Year in Hyperscale: Facebook Accelerates Data Center Growth, Innovation

By Sarah Rubenoff - December 27, 2018 Leave a Comment

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It’s been a turbulent year for Facebook. Even as the social network has made headlines, it has continued to expand its massive global data infrastructure.

Tagged With: Colocation, Facebook

Facebook Expanding Prineville Campus To 3.2 Million SF

By Rich Miller - September 21, 2018 Leave a Comment

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Facebook continues to accelerate its data center construction. The company will build two more data centers in Prineville, Oregon, which will be Facebook’s largest cloud campus.

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NJFX Welcomes Subsea Cable On-Ramp for Google, Facebook

By Rich Miller - September 18, 2018 Leave a Comment

The Meet-Me-Room at the NJFX data center in Wall Township, N.J. (Photo: Rich Miller)

A new trans-Atlantic cable carrying Facebook and Google traffic from Europe will land at the NJFX colocation campus in Wall, NJ, boosting its bid to make New Jersey a strategic landing point for the world’s subsea cables.

Tagged With: Fiber Optic Cables, NJFX, Undersea Cables

Facebook Plans Colossal 11-Story Data Center in Singapore

By Rich Miller - September 6, 2018 1 Comment

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Facebook is expanding its data center network to Asia with a colossal 11-story, 1.8 million square foot facility that will be one of the largest data center structures ever built.

Tagged With: Facebook, Singapore

New Design Helps Facebook Keep Data Cool in Hot Climates

By Rich Miller - June 5, 2018 1 Comment

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A new cooling system will allow Facebook to efficiently expand its data center network in new places, including hot and humid climates. The membrane-based system was created by Facebook and cooling specialist Nortek.

Tagged With: Facebook, Nortek

Facebook Unveils New Hardware to Manage Data Center Traffic

By Rich Miller - March 20, 2018 Leave a Comment

A look at four flavors of the Facebook Fabric Aggregator, handling traffic flows at multiple levels of its data center architecture. (Image: Facebook)

Facebook has designed a distributed networking system to support the massive flows of data moving between its data centers. The debut of Fabric Aggregator lays the groundwork for even larger cloud campuses to come.

Tagged With: Facebook, Open Compute Project

Facebook Accelerates its Data Center Expansion

By Rich Miller - March 19, 2018 Leave a Comment

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Facebook is kicking its infrastructure growth into a whole new gear. The company has accelerated its data center construction program, announcing five new cloud campuses in 15 months.

Tagged With: Facebook, Open Compute Project

Facebook Boosts Mojo for Hot Atlanta Data Center Market

By Rich Miller - March 9, 2018 Leave a Comment

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Facebook’s decision to build a $750 million data center near Atlanta adds some hyperscale heat to the rising profile of the Atlanta region, which is already seeing new projects from providers targeting the enterprise market.

Tagged With: Atlanta, CyrusOne, Facebook, switch

Facebook Will Build $750 Million Data Center Campus Near Atlanta

By Rich Miller - March 7, 2018 1 Comment

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Facebook’s data center infrastructure just keeps growing. The social network will invest $750 million in a new data center campus in Stanton Springs, Georgia, about 40 miles east of downtown Atlanta.

Tagged With: Atlanta, Facebook

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Top 2019 Trends Impacting the World's Escalating Demand for Data and Power

Top 2019 Trends Impacting the World\'s Escalating Demand for Data and Power Jim Witham, CEO of GaN Systems, explores the top 2019 data cent power trends, and highlights new perspectives and approaches to thinking about and addressing the power needs of the diverse technology that surrounds us. 

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GaN Rising as Power Chain Option as Energy Demand, Cost Grows

Data center leaders are exploring the potential of using Gallium nitride (GaN) in power conversion equipment to increase efficiency. Although GaN has been around for a while, it’s relatively new to the data center world.

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Data center leaders are investing in edge computing and edge solutions and actively looking at new ways to deploy edge capacity to support evolving business and user requirements.

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