Facebook CEO Announces Plan to Share Data-Center Technology

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Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg plans to share the social-networking site’s data-center and server designs with other companies to help the technology industry become more efficient.

The effort, called the Open Compute Project, will provide access to technology Facebook developed with Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Dell Inc., the Palo Alto, California-based company said today.