Facebook has plans to build a massive server farm in Sweden, near the Arctic Circle that will use as much electricity as a town of 50,000 people, reports the Associated Press. The server farm will be ...

Facebook on Wednesday outlined its new server design that aims to improve performance per watt and contributed it to the Open Compute Project. With most of the cloud and enterprise heavy hitters ...

Facebook on Thursday launched an initiative it calls the Open Compute Project, an effort to share the specs and designs of the custom servers in its data center in Prineville, Ore. In other words, ...

The social network's new Open Compute Project allows industry peers to access the design and power specifications of the large data centers and servers Facebook uses at its Prineville, Ore., location.

MENLO PARK, California--- Since you last saw Frank Frankovsky, his beard has grown to epic lengths. And it suits him. As the man at the center of Facebook's Open Compute Project, Frankovsky spent the ...

Amir Michael works for Facebook, so it's no surprise he's a hacker. But he doesn't hack software. He hacks hardware -- and the occasional shipping and receiving room. By the end of 2010, the shipping ...

Facebook blamed a massive outage that stretched into Thursday morning on a server configuration change. The world's largest social network said it has resolved the issue, which affected millions of ...

Facebook suffered a huge outage starting on Wednesday that affected users worldwide. The social network said on Thursday that changes to a server configuration were to blame. Users flocked to Twitter ...

Social-network giant expected to announce its first non-U.S. server farm will be located in Sweden, 60 miles from the Arctic Circle. Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News. He's been hooked ...