Facebook plans to build a large data center in the far north.
The new data center will be located in Luleå, where the average temperature is approximately two degrees Celsius. In summer, temperatures rarely rise above 20 degrees Celsius. The city is located 100 km from the Arctic Circle.
This allows the company to significantly reduce server cooling costs. The city's climate allows the data center to be cooled using outside air rather than dedicated air conditioners or fans.
This data center will be the company's largest outside the United States. It will be called the "Server Farm."
The data center will house three massive server rooms, with a total area equivalent to 11 football fields or 30,000 square meters. Facebook will invest €330-350 million in the project.
Another reason for choosing Sweden for this data center is the country's relatively low electricity costs and its robust telecommunications infrastructure. However, despite this, the new data center's electricity costs will exceed $70 million per year. The first data center hall will be operational next year.
The Swedish government is actively investing in data center construction. At the beginning of the year, the country allocated over €11 million to begin construction of server facilities.
Facebook's new data center will serve users in Europe.
At the beginning of its operation, the social network Facebook leased data centers owned by other companies. However, as the number of social network users grew, the company needed its own data centers, and in 2009, Facebook began building its own data centers.
In July, the company announced the start of construction.new data centersAnd in the spring of this year, the company published the specifications of its newdata centers, more economical and environmentally friendly than traditional ones.
Google recently announced the construction of a data center in Finland, which uses seawater to cool its servers, further reducing energy costs.
In addition to the Finnish data center, Google currently has 12 large data centers in the United States, two in the Netherlands, and one in Belgium.
