Facebook invests half a billion dollars in new data center
Facebook, the world's largest online network, just keeps growing. Now it needs a new data center. CEO Mark Zuckerberg is investing half a billion dollars in the project.
The now fifth data center will be located in Fort Worth in the state of Texas, as Facebook announced late Tuesday. Thanks to new wind turbines, it will be powered by renewable energy. Overall, one year of Facebook use has the environmental impact of a medium latte, the company assured in a blog post. Of Facebook's four data centers to date, three are located in the USA and one in Sweden, where the low outside temperatures should help with cooling. Containing the heat produced by computers traditionally consumes a lot of electricity in data centers. According to the latest figures, the more than 1.4 billion Facebook members alone access four billion videos every day. And CEO Mark Zuckerberg expects videos to become even more important for communication on Facebook in the future. The company is developing its own servers in order to be less dependent on hardware manufacturers. (SDA)
