Facebook open sources low power server and datacentre designs

Iain Thomson
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Company ditches off-the-shelf products in a move that will slash datacentre operating costs

Facebook has started the Open Compute Project (OCP), which will share new server and datacentre designs that are radically more efficient than current systems. Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg sa...

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