{"id":4246,"date":"2011-12-01T15:04:33","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T19:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=4246"},"modified":"2023-04-29T12:39:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T16:39:12","slug":"a-look-at-the-new-facebook-data-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2011\/12\/a-look-at-the-new-facebook-data-center\/","title":{"rendered":"A look at the new Facebook Data Center"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Very good article on the new Facebook Data Center in Prineville, Oregon via Wired.com<\/a>.  One of the interesting aspects of the data center design is the energy efficiency aspect.  In a data center that services 800 million users, shaving a few percentage points off of the energy bill represents huge savings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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According to the article, the location was chosen for its climate. \u00a0The area has low humidity, thus allowing the use of evaporative cooling<\/a> system verses the conventional refrigeration cycle systems most often used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another area is in the servers themselves. Facebook decided to design their own servers, using a stripped-down platform, larger heat sinks, slower fan speeds, etc to reduce the amount of electricity used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All in all the article is well worth reading, as the future of broadcasting will be centered on data centers such as this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Very good article on the new Facebook Data Center in Prineville, Oregon via Wired.com.  One of the interesting aspects of the data center design is the energy efficiency aspect.  In a data center that services 800 million users, shaving a few percentage points off of the energy bill represents huge savings. According to the article, … Continue reading A look at the new Facebook Data Center<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[158],"class_list":["post-4246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-stuff","tag-aoip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4246"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11676,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246\/revisions\/11676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}