Meta has been designing, building, and deploying its hardware in some of the largest data centers for over 14 years. In 2009, following rapid growth, engineers were called up to rethink their infrastructure to support the massive internal growth in data, people, and resources as Facebook engineers began the journey to design an energy-efficient data center with software, servers, hardware, cooling, and power. They've now contributed the Grand Canyon Storage System to OCP as the next standard for bulk storage.