Facebook Infrastructure Needs

Facebook has experienced a phenomenal growth. According to datacenterknowledge.com (03/2009):

• Facebook has been adding more than 600,000 new users a day in recent months; it just surpassed 200 mn users
  
• More than 24 percent of U.S. Internet users have Facebook accounts, as do 43 percent of the online audience in the UK
• The company may be spending as much as $1 million a month on electricity to power its servers and data center space
• Facebook hosts more than 10 billion photos posted by users

This all adds up to an enormous amount of data to store, manage and move across the Internet. And this is why Facebook needs more data center space.

Facebook Data Center:

• ACC4 (Ashburn, Virginia); DuPont Fabros? --> 10,000 square feets (929 square meters)
• ACC5 reserved (Ashburn, Virginia); DuPont Fabros? --> 20,000+ square feets; 6 MW power
• Digital Realty Thrust Q4/2008; location unknown, but DRT owns numerous data center properties in Europe --> could be strategical partnerships for expanding Facebook to overseas
• Terremark (Santa Clara - entire space) 02/2008
• Switch & Data (Palo Alto)