CenterNetworks : Allen Stern
Wikia's Got A Truck Full of Servers -- 1,000 To Be Exact! December 16, 2007
"Many people have speculated that this is for a crawl and/or Hadoop cluster and this was confirmed by Jimmy Wales on IRC when I asked if the servers were for a web crawl he replied “they are for the wikia search web crawl, yesâ€."