Facebook Insanity
Sources told Arrington that Facebook is spending “well over” a million dollars a month in electricity alone and “likely” another $500,000 for bandwidth, as shameless social networkers post billions of photos and other solipsistic pixels. Recently, the company said that users upload two to three terabytes of photos each day. And every second, it serves as many as 300,000 pics the other way.
The word from TechCrunch is that Facebook has set aside $100m to buy 50,000 servers this year and next. And it’s supposedly buying a $2m NetApp storage system each and every week.