Facebook...setting up shop in Oregon?

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http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/kit...egon-big-green-data-center-it-owns-all-itself

Facebook is so mind-bogglingly vast--350 million users, 70% of them actively using applications on the service--that it's almost impossible to comprehend what it does with all that data. Which makes it surprising that it's taken this long for Facebook to open a purpose-built and self-owned data center. What's more, this move could clear a path for Facebook to design and build its own servers.

Facebook has previously been the primary tenant in data centers that are distributed globally and connected up in an extremely horizontal architecture with no particular regard for the geographic location of its users, according to VP of Technical Operations Jonathan Heiliger. That's why sometimes your account can be inaccessible, while your desk-mate's account works perfectly. It's a way of making the system extremely resilient, and it means that the data centers can be located pretty much anywhere in the world.

Facebook's "done a fairly good job at keeping up with growth, not just trucking in hardware when we needed it," says Heiliger. "But actually getting to the point where we're building hardware and specifying what we want to match what we're trying to do." But Heiliger's team doesn't just think in terms of raw network power and resilience--it also pays close attention to energy management and tries to use "the most efficient gear possible," even while it was just a tenant.

Which is where Oregon enters the frame, and today's news that Facebook will be moving into a purpose-built multi-million dollar data center facility in Prineville. Oregon was able to offer Facebook "a unique combination of suitable climate for environmental cooling, renewable power resources" as well as the availability of a suitable site, the company's Director of Site Operation, Tom Furlong, noted in Governor Ted Kulongoski's press release on the matter. Apparently the facility will be designed to meet LEED gold standards, employing innovative cooling and power management to "make it one of the most energy efficient data centers in the United States."
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They just signed a contract with HP to build 3000 servers. They are definitely up to something.
 
they've been rumored to do an IPO soon, they recently changed their stock into two tiers.
 
personally, i think they will be more and more concentrating on news distribution....i've noticed that less people are posting and more news/groups are now.
 
WTF prineville. the owners probably really like skiing/snowboarding
 
Great news for Prineville. It's a great town and needs the business since the relocation of Les Schwab to Bend.
 
Guess why they ended up there...

Great tax incentives.

But that can't be right. I've been told by the lefties on this board that corporate taxes don't affect corporations' decisions when it comes to choosing where to locate. :dunno:
 
blazerboy30 said:
Guess why they ended up there...

Great tax incentives.

But that can't be right. I've been told by the lefties on this board that corporate taxes don't affect corporations' decisions when it comes to choosing where to locate. :dunno:
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If you can find me a source that suggests they were given a big tax cut, and how many jobs they create (over say 200), I'll be glad to post in my signature for a month "I was wrong about corporate tax incentives"
 
westnob said:
If you can find me a source that suggests they were given a big tax cut, and how many jobs they create (over say 200), I'll be glad to post in my signature for a month "I was wrong about corporate tax incentives"
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The Prineville site is in one of the state's long-term rural enterprise zones, which exempts projects from local property taxes while under construction and fully exempts the site from property taxes for up to 15 years once production begins.

Facebook has also applied for a 10-year waiver of all income and excise taxes under the Oregon Investment Advantage program. Gov. Ted Kulongoski can authorize additional corporate tax credits under the rural enterprise zone program, but he has not done so, according to his office.
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In Facebook’s case, it will be excused from paying up to $2.8 million per year in taxes that would have been charged because of the $188.2 million value of the new data center, according to records obtained from the county.
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Yes, the entire facility will be staffed by Robots who will not move there, spend money in the local community or buy real estate.
 
so they are giving up 45 million dollars in property tax for the privilege of a few janitorial jobs...
 
westnob said:
If you can find me a source that suggests they were given a big tax cut, and how many jobs they create (over say 200), I'll be glad to post in my signature for a month "I was wrong about corporate tax incentives"
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I heard on the radio that 200 temporary construction jobs and 35 permanent jobs will be created.
 
Baracuda said:
I heard on the radio that 200 temporary construction jobs and 35 permanent jobs will be created.
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I guess I should have said "permanent jobs" not construction jobs.:dunno:
 
They need all that new space for all the pictures I upload of me having hot-tub pirate sex with hookers!
 
They will have to bring in some serious development in that area to entice people to live/work there. Prineville is a shit hole.
 
Tax rate? What tax rate? Apparently it exists on paper only.

Kulongoski and local politicos have done a total sellout (accepted bribes) to business for a few crappy paying jobs which mostly will be staffed with current Facebook employees.

NOT at all what the state's long-term rural enterprise zones are intended for, and it puts a huge immediate and future strain on an already underfunded, crumbling city infrastructure.

BS like this is why you need to vote yes on 66 & 67.
 
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