The social network's new Open Compute Project allows industry peers to access the design and power specifications of the large data centers and servers Facebook uses at its Prineville, Ore., location.

Facebook on Thursday launched an initiative it calls the Open Compute Project, an effort to share the specs and designs of the custom servers in its data center in Prineville, Ore. In other words, ...

Today, Facebook launched its “Open Compute Project” to foster joint collaboration between companies that help run large Internet systems. Products like real time Facebook wall updates are great, but ...