According to a recent article in Current, Facebook Spending Over $1 million on Electricity per Month, is just the beginning of another financial mess due to substantial growth and limited space to store massive amounts of information.
Storing OUR photos seems to be where Facebook's money is going. "More than 850 million photos uploaded to the site each month, and these things chew up bandwidth and storage like crazy. And it’s even more expensive to serve photos in poorer countries where FB is getting all its growth (and little revenue)."
FB is almost the largest photo app on the web, besides ImageShack, according to a similar article posted on Treehugger.com.
It was stated that FB is working to problem-solve by creating a storage system dubbed Haystack, but until the solution is implemented - we all should pitch in. What can you do to make your FB profile a bit greener? Delete some of those photos you posted! Really.
To read more about Haystack, here is an interesting article on Computer World.
-Jacq (@jacqsmith)
