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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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Metaverse Building Boom: Meta Adds 3 Data Centers at Illinois Cloud Campus

By Rich Miller - April 27, 2022 1 Comment

A rendering of the future expansion of the Meta data center in DeKalb County Illinois. Meta is adding three data center buildings. (Image: Meta)

Meta continues to prepare its digital infrastructure for the metaverse, adding three more data centers to its $1 billion cloud campus in Illinois. We look at Meta’s accelerating building boom and what it tells us about the future of data infrastructure.

Tagged With: Facebook, Meta

Meta Is Building a Giant $800 Million Data Center in Idaho

By Rich Miller - February 16, 2022

An illustration of the 960,000 square foot data center that Meta will be building in Kuna, Idaho. (Photo: Meta)

Meta will build an $800 million data center in Kuna, Idaho as it continues adding infrastructure to support its future metaverse. The 960,000 SF square feet campus is another sign that Meta is building big and building everywhere.

Tagged With: Facebook, Idaho, Meta

The Top 10 Data Center Stories of 2021

By Rich Miller - December 20, 2021

Bubbles rise from servers insider a tank of cooling liquid in the Microsoft lab., where the company is testing two-phase liquid cooling technology (Image: Microsoft)

Online platforms have become central to our daily lives. That’s why outages have become big news, a fact reflected in the year’s Top 10 stories at Data Center Frontier, which were topped by high-profile outages for Facebook and OVH.

Tagged With: Amazon Web Services, Editors Choice 2, Equinix, Facebook, Microsoft, SpaceX

Meta Adds More Data Centers in Iowa, Pushing Campus to 5 Million SF

By Rich Miller - December 15, 2021

The Facebook data center campus in Altoona, Iowa. (Photo: Facebook)

Altoona, Iowa will become Meta’s largest cloud campus with the addition of two new data centers. The new capacity will boost the Altoona campus to more than 5 million square feet of data center space,

Tagged With: Facebook, Iowa, Meta

Facebook Has 47 Data Centers Under Construction

By Rich Miller - November 10, 2021

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Meta currently has 47 data centers under construction, the company said this week, reflecting the extraordinary scope of the ongoing expansion of world’s digital infrastructure.

Tagged With: Data Center Construction, Facebook, Meta

Meta Rolls Out New Network Tech for Building its Facebook Metaverse

By Rich Miller - November 9, 2021

A Meta OCP Wedge 400C top-of-rack server running in a Facebook data center. (Photo: Meta)

As Meta begins building a digital metaverse to house a future version of the Facebook social network, it is rolling out new networking hardware and software to power its effort. Here’s a closer look at today’s announcements from the OCP Summit.

Tagged With: Facebook, Open Compute Project

Top 10 Data Center Stories for October 2021

By Rich Miller - November 1, 2021

The Facebook Fabric Aggregator, a system that manages data traffic between its data centers. (Photo: Rich Miller)

October was the busiest month ever for audience growth at Data Center Frontier, reflecting growing awareness of digital infrastructure. Here are the 10 most popular stories on Data Center Frontier in October 2021.

Tagged With: Amazon Web Services, Equinix, Facebook, Google, Intel DCM, Microsoft, Nortek, park place technologies, TA Realty

Facebook: We Disconnected Our Data Centers From the Internet

By Rich Miller - October 5, 2021

The Facebook Fabric Aggregator, a system that manages data traffic between its data centers. (Photo: Rich Miller)

Facebook says that a configuration error broke its connection with a key network backbone, disconnecting Facebook from all of data centers and leaving its DNS servers unreachable, the company said.

Tagged With: Facebook

The Top 10 Data Center Stories for September 2021

By Rich Miller - October 1, 2021

An illustration of the Facebook campus in Prineville, Oregon, including two new data centers (at lower left) that will feature two stories of server rooms. (Image: Facebook)

Facebook’s growth and the industry’s approach to sustainability were the hot topics for September for readers of Data Center Frontier. Here are the 10 most popular stories in September 2021.

Tagged With: Facebook, Flexential, QTS Realty, Service Express, TMGcore, uptime institute, Verne Global, Vertiv, Yondr Group

Facebook Eyes Major Data Center Expansion in Hillsboro, Oregon

By Rich Miller - September 22, 2021

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Facebook is pursuing a massive expansion of its data center infrastructure in Oregon, prompting developer QTS Data Centers to seek approvals for more renewable energy for its new campus in Hillsboro.

Tagged With: Facebook, Hillsboro, Oregon, Portland, QTS Realty

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Mitigate Risk, Improve Performance and Decrease Operating Expenses through Data Center Self-Performance

Mitigate Risk, Improve Performance and Decrease Operating Expenses through Data Center Self-Performance If a vendor conducts the actual work in your data center, then you or your operator aren’t maximizing your current operating resources and are experiencing incremental cost and risk. Chad Giddings of BCS Data Center Operations, explains the importance of your data center provider having a high-degree of self-performance.

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High Efficiency Modes of Operation: Path Toward Highest Energy Efficiency Without Load Availability Trade-Off

The most common UPS topology currently used in the industry is double conversion; nevertheless, most UPS suppliers have introduced Eco Modes of operation to further increase the levels of efficiency of the UPS. Download the new paper from Vertiv, which analyzes potential drawbacks of Eco Mode types of operation, further highlights elements to consider when using these modes of operation, and gives a review of field results for technologies like the Liebert Trinergy Cube UPS and more. 

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Edge Computing is Poised to Remake the Data Center Landscape

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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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 101: Mastering the Basics of the Data Center Industry

Data Center 101: Mastering the Basics of the Data Center Industry

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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