The inexorable march of Facebook seems to continue apace with their announcement today that they are to invest $450m in a new data centre facility in North Carolina as the social networking site strives to offer quicker download times than rivals and prepares to launch new services.
The move comes amid intense speculation online that Facebook will unveil a new messaging or e-mail system next week.
More than 500m people use Facebook, half of them every day, posting billions of photographs, videos and messages. Such activity creates huge demand for computing power, which Facebook is looking to serve itself, rather than relying on third-party hosting providers.
It is following Google's strategy of building it's own bespoke data centres and servers, which it sees as giving it a competitive advantage in page-loading speed and providing new services.
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