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Facebook server farm in Rutherford County almost complete, soon to expand

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Your Facebook profile photo and status updates may soon live here.

Presenting what the company describes as innovative, energy-efficient technology, officials with the social-networking behemoth on Tuesday showed off the first of what could eventually be a three-building data center in Rutherford County.

The first building, scheduled to go online in March, will be capable of serving half the 800 million users now on Facebook, company officials said. Construction begins immediately on a second building, expected to be completed by September 2013.
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