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Facebook May Make Tiny Town a Data Center Mecca

Posted by timothy on from the sounds-like-a-tv-show-setup dept.

miller60 writes "Just weeks after the opening of a Facebook data center in Prineville, Oregon, local officials say two more companies may build server farms in the small town. Facebook has touted Prineville as an ideal environment for using fresh air to cool servers. The news positions Prineville (pop. 10,000, unemployment rate 17 percent) to emerge as a data center hub similar to Quincy, Washington, a small farm town that now hosts five huge server farms."

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  1. Data center Mecca? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Haha, very funny, that would mean people would go endlessly around some big black box server all the day chanting prayers and hoping to get a deeper understanding of things... haha...

    Hey! Waiddaminute... this is what the techies do all day around our M$ Win server!