The social media giant has announced that it will be building a new data center in Oregon soon
Facebook Inc has been looking for ways to grow its social networking platform for a very long time now and has been succeeding too. The networking company announced on September 2 that is has decided to open up a new data center in Oregon, according to latest Facebook updates.
The place that has been chosen by the media company for the building center is a desert which is situated in the region, and will be created in Prineville, which is a facility of the networking firm in the state. In a post made on the website by one of the most trusted employee of the company, and also one who maintains a high position in the firm, the news was released in which it was stated that Mark Zuckerberg’s company is currently looking towards putting in a massive $200 million to carry out the expansion program successfully.
Another thing that needs to be taken into consideration is that Facebook plans to show how the new project will make the center to be the third biggest one of its kind that is owned by the social media giant. This news was reported by one of the directors of the operations at data center situated in the Western Region named Ken Patchett. The operations officer announced that the management of the social media company is quite satisfied with how things are working out for it and for future expansions; a new project has been added to the plans which will be supported by an investment of $200 million, according to recent Facebook news.
Given how the new center will be situated in a desert in Prineville, Patchett assured the general public in his Facebook post that the firm will be using the desert cool air at the data center instead of air conditioners, which are meant to be intensively using up energy. The fact that the media company is on its way to expanding its data centers even more is not surprising for the analysts, given how the firm is receiving more and more data every day and clearly needs more space to store all the information. According to other new sources, the firm already has a cold storage for storing a lot of its important data but those storages are not accessed to on a frequent basis.
Analysts are also talking about how the $200 million investment is not going to go to waste at all, as the previous data center that was made by the firm ended up storing a huge amount of users of the social media site and a massive rise in the user base shows that there will be even more centers in the future as time and users grow.
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