Facebook's new energy efficient data center

[Oxsaren1]

uhhhhhhh is it allowed to steal teh cablez and run like fuck?

[you831able]

I wonder if evaporative cooling works in humid climates like Texas or Georgia? I have never seen a swamp cooler in the south. We use a chiller plant to cool our servers. We probably spend twice what they spend in power.

[ismelloftoothpaste]

"you can feel its about 72 degrees right now"

[tripleredx]

Fuck Facebook

[DJGLuci]

fuck you facebook you are a son of bitch !! sperrts user grund los !!! stirb facebook !!

[duetken]

esto es lo que quieren tumbar los de Anonymous; que tontos

[H33LYcRaZeD]

@gabrielnetworking it's right under the video -.-

[cyberjackcyberjack]

i bet it still gets hacked to fuck, like it always did

[satikass]

Say a box blew up in the data center, would average John lose his images? Our they back up everything?

Another thought I constantly have, when looking at these buildings is that somebody needs to invent a new technology to save data. Like storing 900TB efficiently on a coin-sized disk. That man would be rich.

Nice tech. though.

[LeonKenshi]

@satikass Doesn't work like that ;) Like he mentioned in the video, the servers they are showing are the ones that "make" the page you see, behind that are the things like the database where things like photos are stored.

With a massive system like Facebook or Google run if a single machine, or even an entire datacenter goes offline, you don't have any loss of data, or a significant loss of performance as things are spread out so much the system as a whole just ignores the broken parts.

[blooodmask]

yeah, more servers and more databases so they can keep people's images and information longer, or permanently like he said, "where core data reside in a more permanent nature."

[LeonKenshi]

@blooodmask You are interpreting it wrong. In a system like this your data will be stored for a very short time on the front-end systems, then cached for a while until it is written to a database. Doesn't mean it is there permanently, just that its not temporary storage. Kinda like the difference between having something saved on a hard drive, or just kept in (RAM) memory.

[pedrosttau]

This is exactly what technology companies should be about, pulling other less "technological" companies to more sustainable solutions. 

[aymanshargawi]

Although this guy is a director and what is known of directors is that they should be concerned with management issues only, he is aware of al technical stuff behind the scenes of what he's running. All directors and managers should be knowledgible of what they manage so that they can be efficient managers.

[d7me]

this guy knows what he is talking about ... right man in the right place