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Re:Facebook Buys Dedicated Data Center, Could Servers Be Far... by EricBurnett on Friday January 22, 2010 @02:43AM (#1069299)
FTA: What's more, this move could clear a path for Facebook to design and build its own servers.

The question is about custom servers, it just didn't make it into the title.

Re:Facebook Buys Dedicated Data Center, Could Servers Be Far... by jhammerb on Friday January 22, 2010 @05:40AM (#1069440)
Facebook certainly has the expertise to build their own servers: http://www.facebook.com/techtalks#/video/video.php?v=2085616... and they are hiring Hardware Engineers: http://www.linkedin.com/jobs?viewJob=&jobId=822679