facebook借啦1亿、主要用于部署新的server

Facebook is raising $100 million in debt, bringing their total capital raised to nearly half a billion dollars

This most recent round will be used to scale the service via another 50,000 or so servers. Facebook now has over 70 million active users and around 109 milliion monthly visitors, and the site is at times very slow.

Compare that to Google, which operates at least a million servers (and is adding 500,000 per year, says Business Week), and Microsoft, which is adding 200,000 servers per year.

In any event, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, eBay, et al, never borrowed money as private companies. And we suspect the real reason Facebook is doing so now is because it couldn't raise the rest of that $500 million round at that $15 billion valuation. Especially now, after the Beacon flop.