Facebook puts its data into cold storage (literally)

June 16, 2013

Facebook has opened its first data center outside the U.S., using 100 percent renewable energy and operating on the edge of the Arctic Circle in Sweden. Up to now many of Facebook's data centers in the U.S. have been slammed by environmental campaigners for not using renewable energy, but the one in Sweden—located where the River Lule meets the Gulf of Bothnia—may go some way in turning things around. The data center at Lule is now handling live data traffic from around the world, with all the servers and other equipment powered by locally generated hydro-electric energy. "Not only is it 100 percent renewable, but the supply is also so reliable that we have been able to reduce the number of backup generators required at the site by more than 70 percent," according to a Facebook statement. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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