Open Compute Project: Can Facebook Help Save The World?
Updated: 2012-08-31 19:33:45
: Home Startups Mobile Gadgets Europe Video More Enterprise Venture Social GreenTech Gaming Opinion Drama Guides Smartphones Tablets Digital Cameras Laptops Headphones Events CrunchBase Hot topics Apple Facebook Twitter Google Android Disrupt SF Hackathon enterprise Comment Open Compute Project : Can Facebook Help Save The World Scott Merrill posted 56 mins ago Comments View Staff Page Hardware generally doesn’t interest me too much , so when I heard about the Open Compute project I didn’t give it too much attention . Casually reading up on the subject a little more left me even less interested . Why should Facebook have to design their own hardware , I wondered Wouldn’t hardware vendors be clambering over each other to supply Facebook with gobs and gobs of servers for their data centers