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Facebook About to Make Some Big Investments

Jun 30, 2008
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The Station has heard from a couple of sources inside the industry that Facebook, which recently overtook MySpace.com in number of subscribers, is planning to move off leased, co-located data centers and build its own fleet of data farms.

Mark Zuckerberg & Co. will be looking to use the latest, greatest and greenest data center components available on the market.

What does this mean? Well, um, let me see … a few zillion dollars waiting to be spent on either leasing or buying land for the server farms, all new servers, all new storage, all new security, all new everything …

Starting from scratch in the Web 2.0 business is an amazingly challenging task. Google’s been there and done that … When Facebook gets going, it’ll only be about 37 data centers behind Google.

So, what are you vendors waiting for? Here’s its contact info: 156 University Avenue, Palo Alto, Calif. 94301; main phone: (650) 853-1300.

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