Facebook's Latest Data Center Design presentation at Uptime

Facebook gave a keynote presentation on its Data Center Design

Facebook's Latest Innovations in Data Center Design
Senior Electrical Engineer, Facebook  Paul Hsu
Datacenter Mechanical Engineer, Facebook Dan Lee

Below is a side by side slide Paul presented on the difference between a typical data center power conversion vs. the Facebook design.

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Dan has a slide with side-by-side comparison of a typical mechanical system vs. the Facebook design.

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A couple of other slides share are on the Reactor Power Panel and Battery cabinet.

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The results Facebook shared.

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For more details you can find information at Facebook's Open Compute Project web site.

If you want to see pictures of inside the Facebook data center check out http://scobleizer.com/2011/04/16/photo-tour-of-facebooks-new-datacenter/ and http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/04/19/video-facebooks-penthouse-cooling-system/