According to the document, Facebook had $500 million in “non-cancelable contractual commitments as of December 31, 2011, primarily associated with equipment and provides for our information center operations, and to a lesser extent, construction of our information center sites.”
The paperwork conjointly says that the company’s costs have increased each year and it expects going forward to own increased costs “in particular for servers, storage, power, and information centers, to support our anticipated future growth.”
Facebook says that last year it began using information centers that had been designed specifically on their behalf. (The 1st one, located in Prineville, Ore., began serving information last April). the corporate plans to keep growing its infrastructure primarily through the creation of its own custom information centers. With this move, the corporate says its expects to check an increase in energy potency and a decrease in operational costs. It’s simple to check why the corporate would want to cut costs during this area. The document shows that its current operational lease obligations total $2.2 billion.
