Taking the same 40 racks, if pushed to 90 percent capacity on average, and upgrading the existing server base over the next 2 years to 1U servers would support 1, 520 physical servers.

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"Intel and Facebook are collaborating on a new disaggregated, rack-scale server architecture that enables independent upgrading of compute, network and storage subsystems that will define the future of mega-datacenter designs for the next decade, " said Justin Rattner, Intel's chief technology officer during his keynote address at Open Computer Summit in Santa Clara, Calif.

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WiFi music server and gapless playback function will be available at a later date TBA via firmware upgrading.

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