FamilySearch Data Centers

Have you ever wondered WHERE all the data is stored that is provided by FamilySearch? Did you know ANY of these facts listed below? 

• The FamilySearch website consists of about 6,000 servers
• The general public will add 10 to 15 times the users to the new FamilySearch Tree
• Each center has a robotic tape machine whose size rivals that of a a school bus
• FamilySearch’s Internet connection is large enough to stream more than 75,000 movies simultaneously
• FamilySearch volunteers index 1.5 million records a day
• Each center has miles of cables
• FamilySearch’s ViaWest data center consumes 5 million kilowatt hours annually
• To guard against earthquake damage, the ViaWest data center is built on big shock absorbers
• Instead of the 10 or 20 amp breakers you see in your homes, ViaWest uses a 5,000 amp circuit breaker

"The Ancestry Insider" is an otherwise unidentified employee of FamilySearch who writes a personal blog by that same name. Today he wrote an interesting and fact-filled post about Family Search that can be read here.