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Photo Tour: Inside Facebook’s New High-Tech Cold Storage Data Center

Facebook (arguably) owns more data than God.

But how to store a cache of user data collected at the scale of omniscience? If you’re Facebook, just build another custom-crafted server storage locker roughly the size of the USS Abraham Lincoln on top of a breezy plateau in the Oregon high desert. The company’s newest Prinveville, Oregon data center employs an ultra-green “cold storage” plan

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