A Glimpse Inside a Facebook Server Farm

A Glimpse Inside a Facebook Server Farm (8 images)

A Tour inside Facebook's Santa Clara, California data center
The data center holds tens of thousands servers.
Check out 7 more images after the jump.

A Glimpse Inside a Facebook Server Farm (8 images)

These rows of servers are set up to minimize the energy required to keep the data center running.

A Glimpse Inside a Facebook Server Farm (8 images)

A close up of the servers in two racks.

A Glimpse Inside a Facebook Server Farm (8 images)

The center includes sophisticated coolings systems and back up power supplies.

A Glimpse Inside a Facebook Server Farm (8 images)

Cables connect servers in the center with each other and the entire facility with the outside world.

A Glimpse Inside a Facebook Server Farm (8 images)

The center was constructed using a "layered replication" model that makes failure almost impossible, even if a regional power system blacks out.

A Glimpse Inside a Facebook Server Farm (8 images)

The facility where photographer Martin Schoeller took these photos is located 25 minutes by car from Facebook's headquarters. The company is currently building a state-of-the-art data center in Prineville, Oregon, among other sites.

A Glimpse Inside a Facebook Server Farm (8 images)

The servers process updates to Facebook users' pages as quickly as possible, so that a comment or post is live within seconds. Multiply that across 550 million (and counting) users and the power of the data center becomes awesome indeed.

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