Facebook’s Data Centers
Businesses today run on the Internet, and the Internet runs on data centers. Today, data centers might be more accurately called business centers. Data centers drive nearly every aspect of many businesses, especially ones with a significant online presence like Facebook. But data centers are significant users of expensive electricity to cool their servers, and they make a significant contribution to pollution and global warming. Cloud data center operators are using a variety of new techniques to become more efficient in their use of electricity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r97qdyQtIk
Think & Discuss
After watching the video think about these questions and write your thoughts about them on the discussion board:
- Why does Facebook’s data center specialist argue that “The Internet is not a cloud?”
- What are some of the techniques Facebook uses to cool its data centers?
- Facebook had over 2.3 billion users as of December 31, 2018. If Facebook continues to employ engineers at the same rate as stated in the video, how many engineers does Facebook have?
