Facebook Opens $450 Million NC Data Center
Facebook's first wholly owned data center just launched in Rutherford, North Carolina for a $450 million price tag, including coal power.
Data centers might not be the most glamorous thing about the Internet but they keep something ugly from happening: A crash or outage can tarnish an online company’s image. Facebook has taken admirable steps to prevent such glitches from recurring after small increase in said events occurred last quarter.
And that’s what makes the new data center Facebook just launched in North Carolina so cool. Not to mention the $450 million price tag, the fact that it’s the first such center that the company has complete ownership of.
We’ve previously covered the fact that this data center will have coal
WORK SMARTER - LEARN, GROW AND BE INSPIRED.
Subscribe today!
To Read the Full Story Become an Adweek+ Subscriber
Already a member? Sign in