Facebook makes 255 million dollars in profits<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:23 PM, aki <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:aki275@googlemail.com">aki275@googlemail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div>- Facebook monthly electricity bill = 1 Million USD  , and adds new servers every few days because users appetites for adding photos keeps growing.</div>

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<div>- Youtube monthly bandwidth consumption= 25PetaBytes ( 1000 Terabytes )</div>
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<div>I don&#39;t have the excat amounts but the above is a harsh reality of operating such services. Though their financial standings show as mighty, I wonder how long can they sustain just running just on large adverts?</div>


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<div>Rgds.</div>
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