10/27/11

Facebook to build server farm in Arctic - Technology - GMA News Online - Latest Philippine News

Facebook to build server farm in Arctic - Technology - GMA News Online - Latest Philippine News: "How much cooler can social networking giant Facebook get?

Facebook is planning to build a multimillion-dollar server farm on the edge of the Arctic circle to house its computer servers, UK's The Telegraph reported.

Such a move will also mark the first time Facebook locates a server farm outside the US.

The Telegraph said the facility at LuleƄ town in northern Sweden - at the northern tip of the Baltic Sea, 62 miles south of the Arctic Circle, once completed, would use as much electricity as a town of 50,000 people.

"The climate will allow them to just use only air for cooling the servers," said Mats Engman, chief executive of the Aurorum Science Park.
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