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Awfully smart data center design. Very thoughtful in it's flexibility to adjust for both outside/inside conditions, heating the office space during winter, venting out in warmer seasons.

"By Clint Boulton on 2011-04-08 (eWeek) Facebook's Prineville, Ore., data center is almost finished, and to celebrate the ambitious project the social network decided to do something special April 7. As part of the Open Compute Project, Facebook is publishing specs and mechanical designs used to construct the motherboards, power supply, server chassis, and server and battery cabinets for its data center. That's unprecedented enough for a company of Facebook's growing scale, but the social network is also open sourcing specs for its data center's electrical and mechanical construction. The move is somewhat shocking because Facebook so closely defends behind its walled garden the information inside its network. Who would have thought the company would open source the technological blueprint for how it delivers and supports that data in the cloud? Indeed, Facebook's seeming largesse is a departure from strategies of other Internet companies. Google, Twitter and Amazon closely guard their data center and hardware specifications to maintain a competitive edge in the cutthroat cloud-computing market. Why is Facebook giving away its specs to other companies? Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg explains why in this presentation..."

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