Facebook to Share Its Green Data Center Technology

Oregon – Facebook’s facility is reported to use 35 much less energy than different current centres. Facebook does this with the assistance of modern applied sciences. Now, Facebook needs to make the know-how public in order that different tech firms can profit from the inexperienced knowledge heart expertise too.

Beneath the Open Compute Mission, Facebook has launched the specs and mechanical drawings of the servers in addition to the constructing for different firms to view. It will assist different information corporations cut back their power prices in addition to have inexperienced knowledge servers. Facebook’s unwrapping of its knowledge server designs are in distinction to what different main firms together with Google and Amazon does, which retains its design beneath wraps.

Data facilities want huge quantity of power to perform effectively whereas not heating up. Among the progressive measures utilized by Facebook’s knowledge servers are utilizing in depth exterior air as a substitute of indoor air-con to cool the servers. It stays to be seen how far different firms observe swimsuit, at a time decreasing power consumption and embracing greener applied sciences is a precedence. They have been investing heavily in more efficient systems such as the Netapp FAS2240 and Oracle Sun T4-4.

Some critics although preserve that Facebook wants to resort to utilizing renewable power as its supply of energy if it actually needs to promote itself as a inexperienced firm.