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Photo Tour of Facebook's Open Source Datacenter

Posted by timothy on from the now-you-can-remodel-the-basement dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Robert Scoble has published fantastic photo tour of Facebook's new open source data center. This datacenter is the most energy efficient in the world. The Google and other datacenters are pushing back against new efficiency requirements for a while, and an open source competitor will only make things better for the rest of us."

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  1. Re:Open source data center? by MoonBuggy · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here.

  2. Re:PUE tricks by CastrTroy · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yeah, Living in Canada, I always laugh when they talk about water conservation. Not that we should waste it, but we have much bigger environmental problems to worry about. If there was anywhere near a shortage, it wouldn't cost only a couple buck for a cubic meter (1000 L). Most of the problems with water in this world are a distribution problem, not a supply problem. And water is something that is quite expensive to transport. It's not like you can dehydrate the water to bring the weight down.

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