Facebook Goes Green with Data Center Revamps

Facebook aforementioned nowadays that information technology is redesigning its data centers to be more eco-friendly and efficient. It comes in the form of a new initiative known as the Open Compute Project, in which it hopes to share the custom-engineered technology in its first votive information center in Prineville, Oregon.

Why is this important? These data centers are the domestic of each the information you give Facebook. They store the social graphical record, the totality of your private data at Facebook. The social graph is Facebook's trophy asset, and its means of making money today and into the future.

Facebook rethought and redesigned the data center at Prineville from top to bottom to decrease business leader usage and costs and to induce the quickness much eco-friendly. Facebook says the redesign resulted in a 38 percent growth in energy efficienciency at a 24 pct lower toll.

One of the greatest challenges of operating a data center is cooling it expeditiously. So Facebook engineered the Prineville midway to run at a higher temperature and humidness–85 degrees Ferenheit and 65 pct comparative humidity–than conventional data centers.

The troupe says it wants to share what it learned from the experience with other companies so that they tooshie make their own information centers more ill and high-octane.

Facebook did a great deal of things to reinvent its Prineville data center. The keep company stripped paint and screws and other unnecessaries from the individual servers. Removing paint aids in cooling, among other things; removing screws makes it easier to pull and replace servers.

Facebook as wel organized and built two sets of customer motherboards for the servers. The servers are same inexpensive and can be easily removed out of the large, cap-high server racks and replaced.

"I think it's the biggest cost reduction in running server technology in a decade," same a Dell administrator public speaking at the Facebook event today.