Facebook Rapid Deployment Data Centre
This blog has mostly covered public projects, funded by the government. Sometimes, you do not need governmental participation to create infrastructure of a certain kind. Sometimes, even a private company can bring in economic investments into a region. One such project which was announced with great fanfare but little has been heard ever since then is the Facebook Rapid Deployment Data Center in Sweden.
This data centre would have been considered to be the most efficient data processing centre in the world then. “The Facebook Rapid Deployment Data Center, in the town of Luleå in Sweden, takes a modular approach to design and construction to accelerate the speed of assembly. Paying homage to another great Swedish institution, IKEA, Facebook claims that the centres can be built and deployed twice as fast as comparable facilities. The northern location also takes advantage of the surrounding Arctic temperatures to achieve a 100 percent renewable energy-powered cooling system” (KPMG). The centre also been designed in such a way that the servers draw in more air and are more space-efficient as well.
Though the project was announced in 2014, there has been very little information on the status of it since then. It is said that construction has started on the project.
A picture of the proposed center from the official Facebook presentation (Image Credits: TheNextWeb)
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