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Releasing information about this helps others better compete with Facebook's competitors while not diminishing the value of Facebook's core asset at all.

Should the design proliferate into other DCs, it would provide a ready disaster recovery base (perhaps even sharing agreements between different operators).

Was anything mentioned about the OS running the servers ? I presume it is an optimized linux, but who knows.

It's just CentOS

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