Open Compute Project Could Increase Facebook's and the Whole Tech Industry's Data Center Efficiency

Today, Facebook announced the Open Compute Project, a collaborative endeavor to design the most efficient computing and the most economical data centers possible. Facebook’s head of technical operations, Jonathan Heiliger, explained that the one and a half year project to redesign its servers and data centers has helped Facebook to make its Prineville, Oregon data center’s servers 38% more efficient and 24% cheaper than the servers it used to buy.

To help share the environmental and cost benefits with other companies, Facebook will make its new server and data center designs and schematics freely available.

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