Facebook has tapped a Swedish town about 62 miles south of the Arctic Circle to be the home of its first data center outside of the U.S. Located in the northern town of Lulea, Facebook said the server site will improve performance for European users.
“Facebook has more users outside the U.S. than inside,” Facebook’s director of site operations Tom Furlong told the Associated Press. “It was time for us to expand in Europe.”
Facebook currently has servers in California, Virginia, and Oregon and is building another complex in North Carolina. The company chose Lulea for its first European site because of its chilly climate, necessary for keeping servers cool. In the winter the temperature stays far below freezing and in the summer, it rarely climbs above about 80 degrees.
Lulea ay napili para sa kalapitan nito sa mga pinagmumulan ng renewable enerhiya. Bayan ay malapit sa isang ilog na may mga hydropower istasyon na bumuo ng double ang koryente yielded sa pamamagitan ng ang Hoover Dam, Facebook Sinabi ng WN. Powering ang mga server ay mangangailangan ng 120 megawatts ng koryente, sapat na upang kapangyarihan 16,000 tahanan, ayon sa ang telegramahan.
Ang bagong site ay maaaring magpatakbo ng ganap na sa renewable enerhiya, ngunit Facebook ay may mga plano upang bumuo 14 backup diesel generators kakayahan ng paggawa 40 megawatts ng koryente sa kaso ng isang pagpapaitim, ang AP sinabi.
sa pamamagitan Facebook ng Picks Sweden Para sa Unang Data Center labas ng US. | Balita & Palagay | PCMag.com.