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Re: facebook spying on us?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Painter)
Fri Sep 30 18:41:59 2011
From: "Michael Painter" <tvhawaii@shaka.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:41:00 -1000
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Steven G. Huter wrote:
> this August 2011 article in the Economist outlines some relevant info
> about the prineville, oregon FB datacenter.
>
> http://www.economist.com/node/21525237
>
> steve
Informative article..."It's the climate, stupid".
Got a laugh out of:
"The server racks are nearly silent, and their internal fans whirr almost imperceptibly.
The only exceptions are network switches which, Facebook staff notes, are perversely designed by even the biggest firms to
vent air out of their sides. As a result, they run loud and hot-and are openly sworn at."
