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Facebook engineer shows off storage unit As a social networking giant, Facebook has massive data center needs for all the vacation pictures, status updates, and funny videos that are uploaded every minute. These data demands have created spaces for Facebook to innovate, including networking, AI, hardware, and renewable energy generation.

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Facebook to Expand Utah Data Center Campus by 900,000 SF

By Rich Miller - February 12, 2021 Leave a Comment

An illustration of Facebook's plans for its expanded data center campus in Utah, which now spans five data center structures. (Image: Facebook)

Facebook announced this week that it will expand its Eagle Mountain Data Center in Utah by more than 900,000 square feet with two new buildings, highlighting the extraordinary growth of data center campuses.

Tagged With: Facebook, Utah

Facebook Adds 1.5 Million SF of Data Centers in $1 Billion Georgia Expansion

By Rich Miller - September 17, 2020 Leave a Comment

An illustration of Facebook's expansion of its Newton County, Georgia data center campus, which will add three massive data center buildings. (Image: Facebook)

Facebook will invest $1 billion to add three huge data center buildings to its campus in Georgia. The construction project will add 1.5 million square feet of capacity.

Tagged With: Atlanta, Atlanta Data Center Market, Facebook

Facebook Keeps Building with $800 Million Data Center in Tennessee

By Rich Miller - August 12, 2020 Leave a Comment

Facebook will invest $800 million in a new data center campus in Gallatin, Tennessee, about 20 miles north of Nashville. It is the company’s third new data center announcement since the COVID-19 pandemic began.

Tagged With: Facebook, Hyperscale data center

Facebook Plans $800 Million Data Center in Illinois

By Rich Miller - June 30, 2020 Leave a Comment

Servers inside a Facebook hyperscale data center in North Carolina. (Photo: Rich Miller)

Facebook will build an $800 million data center campus in De Kalb, Illinois west of Chicago, signaling that the company’s relentless expansion of its Internet infrastructure is not being slowed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tagged With: Chicago, Chicago Data Center Market, Facebook

Dominion Energy Adds Solar Power for Facebook Data Centers

By Rich Miller - April 23, 2019 Leave a Comment

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Dominion Energy will add six new solar power facilities to provide 350 MW of renewable energy for Facebook data centers. The new supply helps address the concerns raised by Greenpeace about the pace of Dominion’s renewable energy program.

Tagged With: Dominion Energy, Facebook, Northern Virginia, Renewable Energy, Solar

Facebook Will Begin Selling Wholesale Fiber Capacity

By Rich Miller - March 5, 2019 Leave a Comment

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As Facebook builds more fiber routes to move data traffic between its data centers, it will begin selling unused capacity to other companies, effectively entering the wholesale fiber business.

Tagged With: Facebook, Fiber, Fiber Optic Cables

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

By Rich Miller - January 24, 2019 3 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

The Top 10 Data Center Stories of 2018

By Rich Miller - December 21, 2018 1 Comment

A cloud-filled sky above a Facebook cold storage data center, framed by the mountains of central Oregon. (Photo: Rich Miller)

Here’s a look at the Top 10 data center stories on Data Center Frontier in 2018, ranked by pageviews. What was hot? Facebook, Google, Ashburn, liquid cooling, edge computing.

Tagged With: Edge Computing, Facebook, Google, Liquid Cooling

Frontier Spotlight: The Top Data Center Stories for September 2018

By Sarah Rubenoff - October 1, 2018 Leave a Comment

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Frontier Spotlight September 2018, the most read stories on Data Center Frontier last month, includes the new Data Center 101 series, plus a deep dive into data lakes and Facebook’s latest moves in the data center space.

Tagged With: Cloud, Colocation, Data Lakes, Edge Computing, Facebook, Hyperscale data center

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Making Your Data Center Water Positive

Making Your Data Center Water Positive Cem Candir, CEO of Chemstar WATER, provides insights on new innovations in data center water treatment and gives details on how some hyperscalers are making their data centers water positive.

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The COVID-19 Crisis and the Data Center Industry

The COVID-19 pandemic presents strategic challenges for the data center and cloud computing sectors. Data Center Frontier provides a one-stop resource for the latest news and analysis for decision-makers navigating this complex new landscape.

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Northern Virginia Data Center Market: The Focal Point for Cloud Growth

The Northern Virginia data center market is seeing a surge in supply and an even bigger surge in demand. Data Center Frontier explores trends, stats and future expectations for the No. 1 data center market in the country.

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Data Center Frontier, in partnership with Open Spectrum, brings our readers a series that provides an introductory guidebook to the ins and outs of the data center and colocation industry. Think power systems, cooling, solutions, data center contracts and more. The Data Center 101 Special Report series is directed to those new to the industry, or those of our readers who need to brush up on the basics.

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