Do you guys know the locations of Facebook data centers? Well, even if you don't know we are anyways going to reveal it in this blog. In early days, Facebook used other's data centers to host its website as it didn't have much user base. But as they grew bigger and bigger in global scale, they realized the need for their own data center. Then came the phase, they used mixed of both. Also, they had been using content delivery network (CDN) of Akamai. But again the company and userbase grew so big that they could afford to build their own data centers around the world in different locations and have their own CDN network as well.
So, as of today there are 17 data centers of Facebook. Few of them can be under construction which I am not sure about. Considering both in-operation and underconstruction data centers of Facebook, they are located in following places:
- Denmark (1): Odense
- Ireland (1): Clonee
- Singapore (1)
- Sweden (1): Luleå
- United States (13): Altoona, Dekalb, Eagle Mountain, Forest City, Fort Worth, Gallatin, Henrico, Huntsville, Los Luna, New Albany, Newton, Papillion and Prineville
However, they are still limited to only 5 countries despite being one of the most used website in the world. This probably has to with the fact that Facebook is not into cloud services like Google or Amazon. Google and Amazon while having their own website user base, they also sell cloud web services in addition to that. That is why they have more requirements of data centers. But Facebook is using its data centers for the sole purpose of its own web applications including Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, etc. Also, it is quite interesting to see that Facebook has concentrated most of its facilities in US.
Hope you liked our blog post on Facebook data centers and their locations. We will update you with more interesting facts in the future if we discover any. So, stay tuned.
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