Facebook has something to ‘like’ about its Q1 2014 results, the social network’s net income increased by a huge 193% to $642m compared with last year’s results of $219m, this is despite spending $363m on capital expenditure, which in Facebook terms means data centers.

Facebook's revenue almost tripled (72%) to $250m compared with the previous year.

The results to March 31 show considerable growth for the company.

In February at Datacentre World in London, Facebook’s director of data center design Jay Park said the company had come up with a new way of designing and building its data centers, saving the company two months in building time.

Park compared Facebook’s rapid deployment data center design to Lego.

“With our stick build design method which we used for Facebook’s Altoona and Oregon data centers, cost was pretty good and this method saved 38% of typical data center design.  But by deploying the rapid data center, we aimed to shorten construction times further, as well as reduce the cost,” Park said.

The social networking organization is using this method to build its second data center in Luleå, Sweden.

Facebook’s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company has made long-term bets on its future.

“We’re in a great position to continue making progress towards our mission,” Zuckerberg said.

Facebook also announced in its results that its CFO David Ebersman will step down on June 1 after almost five years. Facebook’s current VP of corporate finance and business planning David Wehner will succeed him.

Ebersman will remain with the company throughout September to hand over his responsibilities to Wehner.

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