Facebook: The Wimps Will Inherit the Data Center: Unlike Google, Facebook believes the wimps could inherit the data center. As various academics and free-thinking startups seek to reinvent the server using ultra-low-power processors -- aka "wimpy cores" -- Google continues to downplay the idea, and because it's Google -- the company that led a data-center revolution over the last several years -- people are listening. But Facebook is now leading a data-center revolution of its own, and the social networking giant cum hardware designer is rather high on the wimpy-core idea.
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