Facebook Data Center

Data Center Locations
15 Jun 201508:21

Summary

TLDRFacebook, valued at over 100 billion dollars, serves more than a billion users, storing their profiles, photos, and messages on a massive scale. The company's data center in Prineville, Oregon, spans 300,000 square feet, housing cutting-edge servers and memory banks connected by 21 million feet of fiber-optic cable. With constant growth, the site handles over a hundred petabytes of data daily, requiring state-of-the-art cooling systems and backup power to ensure uninterrupted service for its nearly 600 million daily users.

Takeaways

  • 🚀 Facebook is a global phenomenon, valued at over 100 billion dollars with over a billion users.
  • 🏢 Founded by Harvard students in 2004, Facebook's headquarters in Northern California has a unique, youthful atmosphere.
  • 📈 Facebook's growth rate is staggering, with 100 million new users every six months.
  • 🔍 The site operates at an unprecedented scale, with one engineer for every 1 million users.
  • 💾 Storage is a massive challenge, requiring data centers the size of football fields and costing hundreds of millions to build.
  • 🌐 Facebook's data centers are equipped with cutting-edge servers and massive memory banks, interconnected by miles of fiber-optic cables.
  • 🔌 The data centers consume 30 megawatts of electricity, with diesel generators as backup to prevent data loss during power failures.
  • 🌡️ Cooling is critical; Facebook uses a state-of-the-art natural air-conditioning system to prevent servers from overheating.
  • 📈 Social networking's popularity is growing, with almost 600 million users logging in daily, requiring constant expansion of server capacity.
  • 🛠️ Technicians like David Gaylord are tasked with maintaining the vast infrastructure, replacing failed components swiftly.
  • 📈 The scale of data is immense, with petabytes of photos and videos growing daily, far exceeding the capacity of a standard PC.

Q & A

  • What is the value of Facebook and how many users does it have?

    -Facebook was valued at over 100 billion dollars and has over a billion users.

  • How was Facebook started and by whom?

    -Facebook was invented by Harvard students in 2004.

  • What is the rate at which Facebook was growing at the time of the script?

    -Facebook was growing at a rate of 100 million new users every six months.

  • What is the scale of Facebook's operations in terms of user to engineer ratio?

    -Facebook operates with one engineer for every 1 million users on the site.

  • What is the size of the data center in Prineville, Oregon?

    -The data center in Prineville, Oregon, is 300,000 square feet.

  • How does the data center in Prineville store and process information?

    -The data center stores information in cutting-edge servers and massive memory banks, with data flying between them at the speed of light through over 21 million feet of fiber-optic cable.

  • What is the backup power solution for the data center in case of a power failure?

    -In case of a power failure, huge diesel generators stand by as a backup to ensure continuous operation.

  • How does the data center manage the heat generated by the technology?

    -The data center uses a state-of-the-art natural air-conditioning system that cools the servers with chilled air from the high plains of Oregon.

  • What is the scale of electricity consumption at the data center?

    -The data center has 30 megawatts of electricity on tap and uses 14 diesel generators that can each generate up to three megawatts.

  • How much data does Facebook handle in terms of photos and videos?

    -Facebook handles over a hundred petabytes of photos and videos that are growing every single day.

  • What is the capacity of each server rack in terms of memory?

    -Each server rack contains 500 terabytes of memory.

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