Photos: Inside Facebook's Prineville data centre

Jul 18, 2011

Networking giant says it will set a new standard for power efficiency.

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  Facebook's Prineville data centre uses a large set of fans to cool the servers. The Open Compute servers run slightly larger fans that run at a lower speed - again, all in the name of power efficiency. Facebook designed the servers to run at 27 degrees celsius (80.6 degrees Fahrenheit), but have since found the machines are more resilient than first thought. The company now believes the threshold could be more like 85 degrees Fahrenheit (just over 29 degrees celsius). Photo: Steve Tague and Joseph Eastburn  
 
Facebook's Prineville data centre uses a large set of fans to cool the servers. The Open Compute servers run slightly larger fans that run at a lower speed - again, all in the name of power efficiency. Facebook designed the servers to run at 27 degrees celsius (80.6 degrees Fahrenheit), but have since found the machines are more resilient than first thought. The company now believes the threshold could be more like 85 degrees Fahrenheit (just over 29 degrees celsius). Photo: Steve Tague and Joseph Eastburn

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