Facebook Searching For Data Center Money
As Posted at Data Center News
BusinessWeek reports that the popular online site Facebook is scouting for up to $100 million more in financing to build out its data center infrastructure.
The company reportedly has about 275 million users, almost triple last year's number. According to research from Alexa Internet Inc., it is the fifth most popular Web site in the world. Supporting all those users -- and their uploaded photos and videos takes a lot of servers and storage devices.
The company has at least four data centers in the U.S:. three on the West Coast and one on the East Coast. According to the BusinessWeek story, Facebook added 75 million new users in the past three months, more than its entire U.S. audience. So presumably it will look to start building data centers overseas.
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