Friday, April 19, 2013

Facebook launches real-time graphs to highlight its data center efficiency

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/19/facebook-pue-real-time-charts/

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Curious as to the effect that your poking wars are having on the planet? Facebook is outing power and water usage data for its Oregon and North Carolina data centers to show off its sustainability chops. The information is updated in near-real time, and the company will add its Swedish facility to the charts as soon as it's built. The stats for the Forest City, NC plant show a very efficient power usage effectiveness ratio of 1.09 -- thanks, in part, to that balmy (North) Carolina air.

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Via: GigaOm

Source: Facebook, Open Compute Project