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How do different data centres coordinate/communicate?

When data is divided between different data centres located in different geographical locations, how do they communicate?

For example : In a facebook kind of a service,I am Bob and I am making a search (from a particular geo location) to find Alice , who lives in another location (let's say his data is in different data centre than mine). How the system (facebook) finds out which date centre to query to find Alice?