The social network breaks an unwritten rule by giving away plans to its new data center—an action it hopes will make the Web more efficient.
Just weeks before switching on a massive, super-efficient data center in rural Oregon, Facebook is giving away the designs and specifications to the whole thing online. In doing so, the company is breaking a long-established unwritten rule for Web companies: don't share the secrets of your server-stuffed data warehouses.
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