Inside Facebook's data centers
By Shannon Williams
Mon 18 Jan 2016
FYI, this story is more than a year old
Facebook has several data centers around the world, including Fort Worth Texas, Altoona, Prineville, Forest City and Lulea.
The tech giant giant openly shares its data center designs in order to help the industry become more efficient and sustainable.
See below some images from inside the walls of Facebook’s data centers.
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