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Facebook has added another dimension to its march towards total domination of the social networking space and to the concept of 'Open Source' - it has just shared details of its server and datacentre designs, just like it did with its software code, and just like Yahoo did with it's data centre design a while ago. It released many details, down to processing power, output consumption and actual data centre design model.

I think the key here is to note that Facebook appears determined to encourage the adoption of web-scale computing by all. On the surface it would appear that Facebook might be feeding the 'competition' with 'ammo' - but methinks it simply speaks of just how confident the compay is of it's domination of the industry.

Read more on this here - including some of the details the commpany shared: it makes pretty interesting reading, if this is your sort of stuff:

http://gigaom.com/cloud/facebook-open-sources-its-servers-and-data-centers/

Also see 'Why Facebook open-sourced its datacenters' at:
http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/04/why-facebook-open-sourced-its-datacenters.ars

Find Facebook's actual site on its Open Computing project here:
http://opencompute.org/