• Data center strategies for the busiest site on the internet

    March 11th, 2014 by Casey Bisson

    Facebook is continuing to build more data centers, and it is leading the way in data center design and clean energy. It is also sharing this information with anyone who is interested. Facebook’s take is completely divergent from the strategies of other Internet companies such as Google, Twitter and Amazon, which closely guard their data center and hardware specifications to maintain a competitive edge in the cutthroat cloud-computing market. So why is Facebook giving away its specs to other companies?