Facebook announced that it will build the first five sixth largest data center in Fort Worth, Texas.

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In order to meet the next one billion users, Facebook announced that it will build the first five sixth largest data center in Fort Worth, Texas (Fort Worth), and completely wind-powered operation, foreign media Mashable believes that this data center or Facebook apparent license for global expansion ambitions.

Facebook is beefing up its infrastructure to support the next 1 billion users.


The data center is located in Fort Worth area of ​​44.9 hectares, a total size of about 23,225 Sam Tung million square meters of buildings. Facebook spent $ 500 million to its expected to be officially launched before the end of 2016, will be fully powered by about 160 km from the data center 200 MW wind farm.

Facebook Chief Operating Officer Ken Patchett Information Center, said this data center Facebook expand global business has established a stronger backing. Facebook currently has 15 million users, but Facebook plans to turn its leading non-profit "Internet.org" as the next one billion users of the Blue Ocean Hotel, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had said earlier, let Internet.org in end of the year to expand to 100 countries. Such a large amount of users, but also to Facebook may no longer push the first five data centers shelves as soon as possible.
In recent years, including Google, Apple and Amazon and other companies are trying to influence their own facilities on the environment to a minimum, and actively promote renewable energy supply plan, in order to reduce the harm caused by carbon emissions on the environment.

Currently the United States there are about 3 million data center, according to the US Department of Energy (DOE) statistics, between 2001 to 2006, data center power usage degree from 30 billion to 600 billion kWh, as for 2013 is increased to more up to 100 billion kWh, a figure equivalent to 2% of the nation's electricity usage, and data center power usage eating is gradually rising in digital.

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