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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 Showcases its 40 Million Square Feet of Global Data Centers

By Rich Miller - September 15, 2021

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

Facebook has invested $16 billion in building and operating its data centers in the United States, the company said yesterday as it unveiled a new web site showcasing its plans for 40 million square feet of global data center infrastructure.

Tagged With: Facebook

The Top 10 Data Center Stories for August 2021

By Rich Miller - September 2, 2021

An illustration of the planned $800 million Facebook data center campus in Mesa, Arizona. (Image: Facebook)

Capital, climate and cooling were the major themes that DCF readers were tracking closely last month. Here are the 10 most popular stories on Data Center Frontier in August 2021.

Tagged With: Aligned, Cyxtera, Facebook, Forced Physics, Google, Nautilus Data

Facing Climate Urgency, Facebook Plans to Be Water Positive by 2030

By Rich Miller - August 19, 2021

The cooling "penthouse" design of a Facebook data center in Prineville, Oregon. Servers are cooled with fresh air that enters through the louvers on the right, reducing the need for use of water and electricity. (Photo: Rich Miller)

In response to growing concerns about climate change and data center water usage, Facebook says it intends to be water positive by 2030, meaning it will return more water to the environment than it consumes in its global operations.

Tagged With: data center water, Facebook, Water

Facebook Unveils Water Projects to Support $800 Million Mesa Data Center

By Rich Miller - August 12, 2021

An illustration of the planned $800 million Facebook data center campus in Mesa, Arizona. (Image: Facebook)

Facebook announced a series of major investments in water conservation as it confirmed plans for an $800 million data center campus in Mesa, Arizona. The project had brought national attention to the data center industry’s stewardship of scarce water resources in drought-stricken areas.

Tagged With: Facebook, Mesa, Phoenix, Water, water management

The Top 10 Data Center Stories for May 2021

By Rich Miller - June 1, 2021

The exterior of the Data Foundry Houston 2 data center. Data Foundry is being acquired by Switch. (Image: Data Foundry)

The industry’s largest players and markets topped the news last month. Here are the 10 most popular stories on Data Center Frontier during May 2021.

Tagged With: EdgeConneX, Equinix, Facebook, Google, Satellite, switch, Switch Data Centers, Yondr Group

Iowa Cloud Cluster Grows With Facebook Altoona Data Center Expansion

By Rich Miller - May 26, 2021

Rows of blue-lit server cabinets inside one of Facebook's data centers in Altoona, Iowa. (Photo: Facebook)

Facebook will build two more data centers at its campus in Iowa, which will now feature 4.1 million square feet of space. The new construction adds to the massive cloud computing cluster in Iowa.

Tagged With: Facebook, Iowa

Stacking Server Halls: Facebook Boosts Capacity With New Data Center Design

By Rich Miller - May 24, 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)

As it continues a massive global expansion of its infrastructure, Facebook is rolling out a multi-story data center design featuring two floors of server rooms at its campus in Prineville, Oregon.

Tagged With: Facebook

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

By Rich Miller - February 12, 2021

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

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

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

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Building an Enduring World Begins with Accountability and Defining an Approach for Long-term Success

Building an Enduring World Begins with Accountability and Defining an Approach for Long-term Success TJ Faze, Head of ESG Strategy and Engagement at Vertiv, outlines the company's learnings around its recent ESG efforts.

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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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