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Here is the full press release from Invest Sweden on the Facebook Data Center.
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Invest Sweden Facilitates 120 MW Green Investment in New Lulea Data Center
Palo Alto, CA (27 October 2011)—Invest Sweden announced today that it successfully concluded its work with Facebook to facilitate the company’s investment in a new data center in Lulea, Sweden. Construction on the new data center, which will be Facebook’s first outside the US, is already under way. The Swedish location offers substantial cost savings, and an electricity supply that has the capacity to be drawn from 100% renewable resources. Invest Sweden, the official investment promotion agency of Sweden, assisted Facebook in selecting and securing the site for this new data center.
The Lulea location offers Facebook a number of important advantages. The robust power grid in northern Sweden enables Facebook to reduce its reliance on backup generators by 70%, and the climate in Lulea enables Facebook to replicate its unique data center cooling methods, which use 100% outside air. In addition, this new data center is Facebook’s first that will run on power that could be drawn from completely renewable resources.
With abundant hydroelectric power, Northern Sweden has some of the lowest-cost power available anywhere in Europe. As a natural, renewable energy source, hydropower is also carbon-free. Located near the Arctic Circle—at the same latitude as Iceland and Nome, Alaska—Lulea also offers natural climatic cooling, another major cost-savings for data center deployments.
“With low-cost electric power, low cooling costs and a favorable tax environment for businesses, Sweden is an ideal location for data center expansion. We have been working for more than two years to identify excellent sites throughout Sweden that can accommodate large data center infrastructure investment,” explained Invest Sweden’s Tomas Sokolnicki, Manager of the Sweden Datacenter Initiative. “We worked closely with Facebook as they thoroughly vetted several candidate locations from our growing inventory of dozens of available, pre-qualified sites, before finally deciding on Lulea. Our agency stands ready to help other international companies with site identification, acquisition, permits and other assistance.”
Sweden has Europe’s most robust fiber infrastructure. There is redundant national coverage through multiple network operators, and there are twelve Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) servicing numerous international carriers and service providers. Throughout Sweden dark fiber is available from over 100 suppliers.
Northern Sweden, with abundant hydroelectric power, is an ideal location for large-scale, enterprise data centers. The population centers in southern Sweden present a number of ideal sites for multi-tenant or colocation data centers where ease of access is a priority. Stockholm, the financial hub of Scandinavia, has especially good fiber routes to Eastern Europe, Russia and China. Gothenberg offers major industrial sites with power to spare, and Malmo serves as the fiber gateway to the UK and continental Europe.
About Invest Sweden
Invest Sweden is the official investment promotion agency of Sweden. The agency connects international companies with investment opportunities in Sweden, and offers comprehensive, one-stop investment consultancy services free of charge. Since 1996 Invest Sweden and its experts have assisted approximately 2,000 international companies doing business in Sweden
Headquartered in Stockholm, Invest Sweden has offices in China, Japan, India, Brazil and the US. Additional information about data center deployment in Sweden can be obtained on our website: http://www.investsweden.se/North-America/Industries/ICT/Data-centers/ .
The official Facebook press releases are coming out this morning on Facebook's first green data center in Luluea, Sweden.
Facebook Will Cool Its First European Data Center for Free in Sweden
Facebook has begun building a data center in Lulea, Sweden, where it will benefit from cheap electricity and year-round free air cooling, the company announced Thursday. The data center will be Facebook's first in Europe, ...Facebook to build massive Arctic data centre in Sweden
AFP - 26 minutes agoSTOCKHOLM — Facebook announced Thursday that it would immediately begin building a massive data centre -- its third globally and first in Europe -- in the Swedish town of Luleaa, near the Arctic Circle. "After a rigorous review process of sites across ...Facebook likes Sweden for first Europe server site
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Social networking site Facebook is to build its first data center outside the United States in the northern Swedish town of Lulea, awarding an initial construction contract of $121 million, the companies said on Thursday....Facebook plans huge server farm in Sweden: Report
IBNLive.com - 7 hours agoAP Stockholm: Facebook plans to build a large server farm in northern Sweden near the Arctic Circle, taking advantage of the chilly climate to keep its equipment cool, a Swedish newspaper reported on Wednesday. The Norrbottens Kuriren newspaper said ...
The news started yesterday when Telegraph UK scooped the news.
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I'll be at the Facebook Open Compute project for the rest of the day and we'll see what other Facebook news breaks today.
Thanks for your interest in the second Open Compute Summit. The nascent Open Compute community is actively seeking participants who are passionate about making strong technical contributions to defining and delivering the most efficient server, storage and data center designs. We will have executives share the latest and greatest thoughts and innovations, and a number of community-participation sessions. We will be providing more details of the event schedule in the coming weeks.
The Telegraph reports on Facebook's
Facebook to build server farm on edge of Arctic Circle
Facebook is to build a multi-million 'mini town' on the edge of the Arctic circle to house all its computer servers, which would us as much electricity as a town of 50,000 people.
Luleå is situated at the northern tip of the Baltic Sea, just over 62 miles South of the Arctic Circle Photo: AlamyThe enormous server farm facility in Luleå, northern Sweden, to be announced officially on Thursday morning, is the first time that the social networking giant has chosen to locate a server farm outside the US.
Charlotte Observer reports on Apple getting a permit for a Solar Farm in Maiden, NC.
Apple plans solar farm at data center site
By Dianne Straley
CorrespondentPosted: Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011MAIDEN Apple has quietly begun work on a solar farm that apparently could help power its sprawling data center in southern Catawba County.
Permits issued by Catawba County show that the Cupertino, Calif., company has been approved to reshape the slope of some of the 171 acres of vacant land it owns on Startown Road, opposite the data center, in preparation of building a solar farm.
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The engineering plans show how the company will keep soil that it moves around the site from washing into creeks and other areas. The permit has no detail about the solar farm itself, including its size. A Charlotte firm is listed on the erosion control permit as the contractor.
The plans say the site will have multiple gravel roads for access to its solar panels.
The plans are called "Project Dolphin Solar Farm A Expanded." Project Dolphin was the code name given Apple's plans to build a $1-billion data center in Maiden.
