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Based on my calculations, Facebook has more DC space/power than Google/Amazon/Microsoft. They have around 40 million sq ft of DC space, and likely ~5GW of power
by virtuallynathan 5y ago
Based on my calculations, Facebook has more DC space/power than Google/Amazon/Microsoft. They have around 40 million sq ft of DC space, and likely ~5GW of power. They have 48 buildings in 18 locations, with 47 more under construction.
AWS Data centers are fairly small, ~180,000 sq ft or so generally, us-east-2 is about 900,000 sq ft. us-east-1 perhaps 8 million sq ft.
Google likely has more network capacity, but FB is catching up.
- redwood 5y agoI don't see how that could possibly be true. AWS must be much bigger than Facebook
- iamgopal 5y agoSource ?
- virtuallynathan 5y agoNow there's a real source! "Amazon Web Services owns 11.9 million square feet of property, leases 14.1 million square feet" That's 26 million sq ft vs Facebook's 40.5 million.
- virtuallynathan 5y agoPersonal intel, I maintain a map and spreadsheet, combined with publicly available information and press releases.
- onlyrealcuzzo 5y agoGoogle does more network requests than the rest of the external web put together. My understanding is FB is far behind Amazon.