Live Blogging Facebook's "Open Compute Project" -- Opening Up Data Center, Server Tech

We’re here live at Facebook headquarters for a press event about Facebook’s data centers and servers, and something the company is calling the “Open Compute Project.”

Company chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has taken the stage. Live-streaming video is here. Our paraphrased live blog, below. The official Facebook Engineering post on the announcement, here.

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Type-ahead feature — we needed to build the capacity to do it, in order to add the feature. Real-time comments. All this ends up being is extra capacity, bottlenecked on being able to power the servers.

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