Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Surprises At Green Data Center's Grand Opening

PRINEVILLE, Ore. -- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a surprise appearance Friday night in Prineville, Ore., at a community party for the grand opening of his company's new data center.

He told a crowd of about 300 people that building the data center "is a massive step up for us from the leased space that we've been operating out of before."

KTVZ says other Facebook officials joined state and local leaders earlier in the day for the official opening.

Facebook says the custom-built data center uses 38 percent less energy to do the same work as the company's existing facilities.

Servers inside data centers are the backbone of Internet services such as Facebook. They store and transmit billions of status updates, links and photos used by the social networking site's members.

Comments

[StansDad]

12:06 PM on 04/18/2011

Putting good capital to good use, like status updates and picture comments. omg, so hawt

[lizipoo]

09:09 AM on 04/18/2011

I'd say we were better off having a visit from Zuckerberg this weekend than the poor folks in Wisconsin who had to put up with Mrs P and BigBart Inc.    Like every state, Oregon needs industry and jobs yet I fear most will be subjected to the Koch Bros union-busting tour replete with dancing clowns and screechy haridans.  

[StephenJK]

08:48 AM on 04/18/2011

You only slightly notice his ocular implant in his left eye. Fear the ZuckerBORG.

[Plunger 2x]

09:11 AM on 04/18/2011

LOL.. don't you mean LT. Commander Data?..

[StephenJK]

09:37 AM on 04/18/2011

Do not denigrat LTC Data like that ever again.

[StephenJK]

09:38 AM on 04/18/2011

Yeah, and I'm not even a trekkie....LOL

[labman]

08:16 AM on 04/18/2011

I made an unscheduled visit to my local garden center yesterday. Can I get a headline.............. please?

[Totto]

07:51 AM on 04/18/2011

Welcome to Oregon, Mark!

[Nathan Ferguson]

07:04 AM on 04/18/2011

The custom-built data center might use 38 percent less energy than before but it'll be getting all of its energy from dirty coal.

[Totto]

07:52 AM on 04/18/2011

Hydropower, Nathan.

[Nathan Ferguson]

06:25 PM on 05/31/2011

No. I live in Oregon. Hydro-power does not power the entire state. I suggest you educate yourself: http://tenthmil.com/action/alerts/energy/tell_facebook_not_to_power_their_new_data_center_with_coal

[MiddletownHal]

03:51 AM on 04/18/2011

Zuckerberg is buying Oregon?

[Lauteur Calme]

02:20 AM on 04/18/2011

Can someone please tell me where intellectually undernourished, video game players, lonely people go for some comfort these days....?....

Oh yes, it's that incredibly over valued, poorly written javascript/php/html application called Facebook...!

[wilray]

03:46 AM on 04/18/2011

The GUI is screwy.

[hungrypilot]

10:14 AM on 04/19/2011

As opposed to trolling HP articles? Fail...

[Don Treadwell]

12:05 AM on 04/18/2011

Surprise visit? Come on, what is this guy, this President? Settle down, Huffpo.

[sunbeltvoter]

03:26 AM on 04/18/2011

Aye Oh Ell lite. Get used to it.

[Don Treadwell]

12:22 PM on 04/18/2011

Do I have to?

[missingwmd]

11:49 PM on 04/17/2011

omg! was justin beiber there too?

[jedwightn]

11:28 PM on 04/17/2011

I'm sure that Prineville appreciates the jobs!

[Layman23]

10:49 PM on 04/17/2011

Wow.. mark has become jesus....

[FC Augsburg 1907]

01:43 AM on 04/18/2011

what, imaginary?

[Layman23]

10:55 PM on 04/18/2011

Atleast the way Huffpo portrays him.

[hungrypilot]

10:15 AM on 04/19/2011

You win the day, sir.

[ChicagoBob]

10:36 PM on 04/17/2011

There is something about this guy that scares me. Just looking at his picture sends up red flags all over the place. It's in his eyes. There is no compassion, no empathy, no kindness.

But I could be wrong.

[EdMuse]

11:22 PM on 04/17/2011

It's the contacts. He might come off as a little more "human" with glasses but he already knows how dorky he looks.

[mairs]

12:53 AM on 04/18/2011

I don't think you are. He has Scott Walker, John Mayer eyes.

[YoBear]

10:22 PM on 04/17/2011

Wonder who he stole this idea from.