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Facebook Open Compute: The Data-Center Investment That Turned Infrastructure Design Into an Ecosystem

Facebook spent tens of millions redesigning servers and data-center infrastructure, then gave the designs away through Open Compute. The counterintuitive investment lowered its own costs while helping create an open hardware ecosystem.

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