Facebook, the world’s largest social media network, has designed two of the most advanced, energy efficient data centers in the world – one in Oregon and the other in North Carolina. The two spaces occupancy hundreds of thousands of square feet each and the Oregon facility has been awarded LEED Gold Certification.
Facebook uses Redwood’s building-performance lighting system in both facilities to gain significant energy savings from lighting in the data halls and administrative areas and to lower the overall cost of the power infrastructure using low-voltage cable. The system incorporates Redwood’s high-definition sensor network giving Facebook the ability to monitor and receive alerts on fine-grain temperature fluctuations above and beyond their current sensor network as well as details on occupancy in the facility.
Facebook is also using Redwood in corporate office space at their headquarters in California. The system is used primarily to provide real-time data on actual “presence” in conference rooms so that employees can easily find available meeting places as an enhancement to what calendar reservation systems show as “booked” or “available” rooms.
See how Redwood helped Facebook achieve LEED Gold at their Oregon Data Center: