Facebook will follow up its announcement of a European data center in Luleå, Sweden, with a similar initiative in Asia, at Central Taiwan Science Park.

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Facebook is hosting an Open Compute summit to discuss the latest innovations in data center design. We’ve embedded a live video feed of it below, and later that same spot will have a recording of the presentations after the event finishes.

Facebook is moving forward with an expansion of its Prineville, Oregon data center earlier than expected thanks to a little help from lawmakers and a much needed power upgrade.
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As nearly 50,000 responses to a single Facebook post have gone up within about 8 hours, Greenpeace appears well on its way to breaking a world record.
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We are seated in Facebook’s cafeteria as Mark Zuckerberg is discussing how Facebook’s servers and data center facilities are working more efficiently and reducing the use of coal-based power. The content of this announcement jibes with what we’d predicted in our previous post about the event. Be sure to hit the hard refresh keys on your machine to keep up with our live updates of this post.
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Greenpeace has turned up the volume on its calls for Facebook to stop using coal to power its data centers, by setting a deadline of Earth Day, April 22.
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Rather than continuing with large leasing agreements as the company scales its user base, Facebook is deciding to develop their own data centers according to Rich Miller of Data Center Knowledge. The news comes at a time when Facebook is racing toward 400 million users. Given that the company has become “cash flow positive” and has more cash from the most recent DST investment, building their own data center makes more sense.
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