From Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page:Five years ago,...
From Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page:
Five years ago, Facebook started leading an effort called the Open Compute Project to change the way data centers are designed and operated.
Data centers power the internet. They’re the nervous system that allows all kinds of services to run – including Facebook.
But until five years ago, the largest technology companies all designed their data centers and computing infrastructure in secret. They viewed this technology as a competitive advantage to beat others in the industry.
We realized that if we opened up our designs and shared our progress with the industry, we’d all make faster progress together. By working together, we’d produce more efficient designs that would save energy, protect the environment and build better infrastructure for our community.
It has worked. So far, we’ve saved billions of dollars in energy and efficiency improvements. Open Compute now brings together hundreds of companies and thousands of engineers to make progress together even faster.
Today, Google joined the Open Compute Project. Google has always built some of the best infrastructure in the industry, so this is strong symbolic move that our open model of development is the best way forward for everyone.
Over the next decade, we’re going to build experiences that rely more on technology like artificial intelligence and virtual reality. These will require a lot more computing power, and through efforts like OCP, we’re developing a global infrastructure to enable everyone to enjoy them.