SALT LAKE CITY Facebook announced this week the first phase of its massive data center in Eagle Mountain is now operational and work continues on four other structures set to house banks of digital data servers that keep the world s biggest social media platform humming along.
The company s $1 billion-plus data center in this small community on the west side of Utah County is just one of 13 across the country and when complete will occupy some 1.5 million square feet.
Exactly how much data the facility will be able to hold is a little murky, and the company isn t saying, but experts estimate the highly secretive National Security Agency data center in Bluffdale, which has a similar footprint, might accommodate 3-raised-to-the-power-of-12 exabytes of data. And don t feel bad if you haven t heard of an exabyte, the term for 1,000 to the 6th power or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes of information.
Facebook fires up first data center operations in Utah as massive construction project continues
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