Twitter and Facebook Data Center
May 12, 2010
Twitter and Facebook Announce Major Strategic Data Center Moves
Facebook moves Data Center to Prineville
Facebook is growing at a very rapid rate. It has become the 12th largest site on the Internet. Its traffic has grown 725 percent from 2008 to 1,358 in 2009. In the past, Facebook has leased space from wholesale data centers like DuPont Fabros Technologies, Fortune Data Centers and Digital Realty Trust. Now Facebook is in the process of opening its new facility in Prineville, Oregon. The estimated cost is somewhere around $180 to 215 Million dollars on the 147,000-square-foot facility. It selected Prineville, Oregon for several reasons including low power cost. Prineville is in one of the state’s long term rural enterprise zones. This makes it exempt from local property taxes during its construction period and could fully exempt the data center for up to 15 years after the sites is Read more