4 ms·

I'm wondering how much revenue gets lost every minute that Facebook is down. It has to be in the tens of thousands. Edit: someone wrote this below in the comme

• sliverstorm 12y ago
  $400 per second somehow seems... smaller than I would have thought. Their opex on a per second basis has got to be orders of magnitude higher than that.
  • benhamner 12y ago
    $400 per second is about $13 billion per year
• semi-extrinsic 12y ago
  For comparison, the cost of downtime for a single oil rig is on the order of $100 per second. Petrobras, as an example, operates 70 rigs and has a market cap of $125 billion. Facebook has a market cap of $216 billion. (source for cost: Cormorant Alpha shutdown in 2013) Edit: misplaced parenthesis => my first number was way off, $70 000 vs $100. Redid analysis, made mental note not to do math before coffee intake.
  • mjrpes 12y ago
    That seems a tad... high. $70,000 = $2 trillion a year, assuming 24/365 usage. Total value of all oil produced in the world (assuming $50/barrel) is roughly $1.4 trillion a year.
    • omni 12y ago
      You're off by an order of magnitude, 70 * 100 = $7,000, not $70,000.
  • timmaxw 12y ago
    http://www.offshoreenergytoday.com/cormorant-alpha-shutdown-costs-10-mln-per-day-uk/ http://www.offshoreenergytoday.com/cormorant-alpha-shutdown-... estimates that the Cormorant Alpha shutdown cost $10,000,000/day, or about $100/second. That figure comes from multiplying the oil production (90,000 barrels/day) by the oil price ($110/barrel). Where did you get the $70,000/second figure from?
    • semi-extrinsic 12y ago
      Gah, misplaced a parenthesis. You are correct. I shouldn't do math before I've had coffee.