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How much juice does it take to store your entire social networking history? Enough to power an entire county in Oregon — or so says the impact report on Facebook's new $210 million data center in Prineville, OR.
The new Facebook building consumes 28 megawatts of power, an amount identical to what is being consumed by the rest of the Crook County, where the building is located. The social media giant is currently constructing a second data center identical to the first, and has the option to build a third.
Twenty-eight megawatts is actually not far out of line with a data storage center of its size. And according to the Crook County Economic Development Manager, the region's grid can handle the power draw. In fact, Prineville may soon be home to an Apple data center as well. Crook County's climate is supposedly ideal for data centers, which use large amounts of fresh air to cool servers.
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Facebook's new data storage center is a power hog
The company's newest data storage facilities sucks up as much juice as the rest of the county it's located in
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