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Facebook’s Five Power Plants

by Mike Mulvihill
Photo by Laban West.  Lightning over Muskogee Power Plant, Muskogee OK.
Last week the number of the week was 30,000  –  that’s how many servers support Facebook’s operations.  (No wonder, Facebook produces 25TB – yep, tera-bytes – of log data per day).  The numbers comes from Jeff Rothschild,  the vice president of technology at Facebook, [...]