Facebook Builds Data Center Near Arctic Circle
Facebook will be constructing a gigantic datacenter in Lulea, Sweden.
The city is located near the Arctic Circle and will be home to Facebook's first European data center. Lulea's sub-arctic climate will enable the company to take advantage of natural cooling resources with a climate that has short, mild summers and long, cold winters.
The data center will have a floor space of more than 900,000 square feet, which exceeds the size of 15 football fields. According to the town of Lulea, the facility will be built in three phases and eventually consist of three separate server rooms that are designed to handle a substantial portion of Facebook's data traffic. The completion date is targeted for 2014.
Facebook has been frequently criticized, especially by Greenpeace, that it does not make enough effort to achieve an efficient use of energy in its data centers and draw most of its power from coal power plants. The Lulea data center will consume power that is exclusively produced by water power plants and the natural climate should help bring down the power consumption quite a bit. Competitors, such as Google, use similar concepts: Google recently opened a data center in Hamina, Finland, which uses sea water for cooling its servers.
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Good for cooling, bad for latency.
How long until some of them web giants decides to build one at the antarctic ?
Though latency and facebook together are not things that anyone cares about.
Having 100+ ping on farmville isn't that critical
I think Greenpeace meant that Facebook is a waste of resources period.
cool idea for icebook.
only if it could protect users from privacy leaks and malware better.
apple called, they patented the arctic circle datacenter idea.
2 years later: Greenpeace will protest against Facebook servers, because they doubled ice melting rate
cool idea for icebook.only if it could protect users from privacy leaks and malware better.apple called, they patented the arctic circle datacenter idea.
rofl
Translation:
"Facebook will be constructing a gigantic datacenter in Lulea, Sweden, to store the private information that you have deleted"
Correct me if I am wrong but I believe that is where the humans found the Predators while drilling a whole in the Artic Circle. Been awhile since I watch that movie. Just a side note to this artical
Correct me if I am wrong but I believe that is where the humans found the Predators while drilling a whole in the Artic Circle. Been awhile since I watch that movie. Just a side note to this artical
never watched it predators, but do you mean the thing?
that said
didnt Greenpeace get hijacked by anti corperate people and loose its origional meaning...
that also said, why not just build more nuclear power plants, take all of americas power cost down significantly, and make everyone but the most stupid of hippy happy.
It's hole, not whole. And it was the Antarctic, not north pole. You can easily remember this because the guy with the camera was upset he didn't get to photograph the "PoR" North pole doesn't have a point of no return. (assuming you mean AvP here.)
I too am surprised Greenpeace and others aren't upset about this. You would think it would increase melting rates. Should help with their electric bill however.
2 years later: Greenpeace will protest against Facebook servers, because they doubled ice melting rate
And Facebook will bring down the some countries and continents under water...
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Correct spelling of the city, Luleå.
The bad, The Swedish government give 100 Million SEK , aprox €10-9 million to facebook for this. Could have been used elsewhere.
To those thinking that it will accelerate the melting rate. Luleå does not intersect the north pole i.e. there is no ice caps around Luleå, it is far far away. So no melting of the ice caps, only snow.
Latency: Dont be shitting me, Sweden have one of the best infrastructure when it comes to fiber optics and copper.
never watched it predators, but do you mean the thing?that saiddidnt Greenpeace get hijacked by anti corperate people and loose its origional meaning...that also said, why not just build more nuclear power plants, take all of americas power cost down significantly, and make everyone but the most stupid of hippy happy.
Ummm...did you miss that whole thing that happened over in Japan with 4 of their nuclear reactors?
BTW: what happened to the news coverage of that incident??? There is nothing newer then June when they upgraded the severity level to that of Chernobyl. Which btw, is the MAXIMUM severity level we have established. A 7 out of a possible 7 on the nuclear disaster scale. The impacts of the radiation are not yet fully understood, as to what it will do to us here in the U.S.A and over in Europe. But it's safe to consider all sea food from within a few hundred KM of the nuclear plants to be radioactive and unhealthy for consumption. Probably within a year or two that radiation will spread all the way to the U.S. west coast, and I will refuse to eat any sea food fished from that side of the planet. High radiation levels (700 Bq/kg) has already been found in Plankton (a major fish food source) over 200km south of the nuclear plants.
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Avalanches on flat ground? That's a new one.
This will be finished in 2014? LOL. Facebook will be history in 2014. This data center will become a giant museum.
Latency: Dont be shitting me, Sweden have one of the best infrastructure when it comes to fiber optics and copper.
It doesn't matter what infrastructure there is in Sweden, when we're talking about a trip from Europe to USA. The Transatlantic latency alone is ~80ms.
It doesn't matter what infrastructure there is in Sweden, when we're talking about a trip from Europe to USA. The Transatlantic latency alone is ~80ms.
If you're in the US it would most likely use a datacenter in the US. And it's not like 80ms is alot ^^.
How long until some of them web giants decides to build one at the antarctic ?
Never, it would violate several international treaties.
It's hole, not whole. And it was the Antarctic, not north pole. You can easily remember this because the guy with the camera was upset he didn't get to photograph the "PoR" North pole doesn't have a point of no return. (assuming you mean AvP here.)I too am surprised Greenpeace and others aren't upset about this. You would think it would increase melting rates. Should help with their electric bill however.
It wouldn't increase melting rates unless they build it right inside a glacier.
Good for cooling, bad for latency.
not necessarily true...by that time latency will be a thing of the past....they will make it work
It doesn't matter what infrastructure there is in Sweden, when we're talking about a trip from Europe to USA. The Transatlantic latency alone is ~80ms.
are you telling me that you can't wait 80ms?....you have got to be kidding me
Ummm...did you miss that whole thing that happened over in Japan with 4 of their nuclear reactors?BTW: what happened to the news coverage of that incident??? There is nothing newer then June when they upgraded the severity level to that of Chernobyl. Which btw, is the MAXIMUM severity level we have established. A 7 out of a possible 7 on the nuclear disaster scale. The impacts of the radiation are not yet fully understood, as to what it will do to us here in the U.S.A and over in Europe. But it's safe to consider all sea food from within a few hundred KM of the nuclear plants to be radioactive and unhealthy for consumption. Probably within a year or two that radiation will spread all the way to the U.S. west coast, and I will refuse to eat any sea food fished from that side of the planet. High radiation levels (700 Bq/kg) has already been found in Plankton (a major fish food source) over 200km south of the nuclear plants.
Please, that was the Japanese being idiots and building a nuke plant in such an idiotic area. Modern nuclear power is extremely safe especially in an area like sweden. Nuclear is the only form of power that we currently have that has the capacity to replace all coal and oil burning plants. In the future we may have other alternatives but right now nukes are it.
Good for cooling, bad for latency.
Since when has Facebook been fast anyway?
Ummm...did you miss that whole thing that happened over in Japan with 4 of their nuclear reactors?BTW: what happened to the news coverage of that incident??? There is nothing newer then June when they upgraded the severity level to that of Chernobyl. Which btw, is the MAXIMUM severity level we have established. A 7 out of a possible 7 on the nuclear disaster scale. The impacts of the radiation are not yet fully understood, as to what it will do to us here in the U.S.A and over in Europe. But it's safe to consider all sea food from within a few hundred KM of the nuclear plants to be radioactive and unhealthy for consumption. Probably within a year or two that radiation will spread all the way to the U.S. west coast, and I will refuse to eat any sea food fished from that side of the planet. High radiation levels (700 Bq/kg) has already been found in Plankton (a major fish food source) over 200km south of the nuclear plants.
So did you miss exactly where they built the plant? The plant was fine and safe, the only down side was that Mother Nature was pissed and hit Japan on 2 different fronts and there is nothing we can do to protect against her fury. Had the plant been farther inland and away from the coast it would not have happened, there is only so much you can do to protect things from nature.
Ummm...did you miss that whole thing that happened over in Japan with 4 of their nuclear reactors?BTW: what happened to the news coverage of that incident??? There is nothing newer then June when they upgraded the severity level to that of Chernobyl. Which btw, is the MAXIMUM severity level we have established. A 7 out of a possible 7 on the nuclear disaster scale. The impacts of the radiation are not yet fully understood, as to what it will do to us here in the U.S.A and over in Europe. But it's safe to consider all sea food from within a few hundred KM of the nuclear plants to be radioactive and unhealthy for consumption. Probably within a year or two that radiation will spread all the way to the U.S. west coast, and I will refuse to eat any sea food fished from that side of the planet. High radiation levels (700 Bq/kg) has already been found in Plankton (a major fish food source) over 200km south of the nuclear plants.
ok, how many tsunamis hit america in the mid west?
how many areas are low tornado risk?
the main crap with the japan tsunami is they stored the radioactive material on site, and there was an investigation into people running those plants were bribing people checking them for violations even before the tsunami hit.
just because they can fail, doesnt mean we should not build it.
you think a sky scraper wont be built again just because a plane can hit it or an earth quake can happen?
2 years later: Greenpeace will protest against Facebook servers, because they doubled ice melting rate
who would have thought the end of the world would really be because of Zynga's games
Contributing to disturbance of pristine arctic land.
Great, now even hiding out in the arctic won't get me away from this pointless nonsense.
this is where all your 'deleted' profiles are stored. they never get rid of your data, obviously.