Peek inside Facebook's massive data centers that store all your photos, 'likes,' and chats

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Technician   Prineville 2 - Facebook data center

Alan Brandt

If you open Facebook on your phone for 30 seconds, you're activity likely touches over 1,000 servers.

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Much of that "magic" happens in the social network's own massive data centers.

Since 2011, Facebook has built four centers in Oregon, Iowa, North Carolina, and Sweden with innovative, environmentally-conscious designs that it has made available to the public through its Open Compute Project.

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In July, it began constructing a fifth in Fort Worth, Texas.

Take a peek inside those centers and see where all your Facebook data "lives."

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