When you are the world’s biggest social network and have billions at your disposal, any building project taken on is going to be massive. This is how experts are describing Facebook’s latest building project.
The social networking giant is reported to be drafting plans for a $72.3 million a year data center in the Swedish town of Lulea. Many are calling the data a center a ‘mini-town’ due to the share scale of the project. When the project is completed, the data center will be the largest of its kind outside of the US, and the largest one ever built in Europe.
The building complex is rumored to be taking up more than 11 football fields, and is being built in Lulea to capitalize on the region’s extremely cold climate. Facebook will naturally save a ton on keeping the servers cool and in a larger sense, might have started a trend in offshore large scale server management.
If anyone doubted the scale of the project, they only need look at the expected date of completion for the data center. Work will wrap up in 2014.
Do you think Facebook will grow even more outside the US? Chime in using the comments below.
source: http://www.sitetrail.com/2011/11/01/facebook-to-build-new-data-center-costing-72.3-million-per-year/
The social networking giant is reported to be drafting plans for a $72.3 million a year data center in the Swedish town of Lulea. Many are calling the data a center a ‘mini-town’ due to the share scale of the project. When the project is completed, the data center will be the largest of its kind outside of the US, and the largest one ever built in Europe.The building complex is rumored to be taking up more than 11 football fields, and is being built in Lulea to capitalize on the region’s extremely cold climate. Facebook will naturally save a ton on keeping the servers cool and in a larger sense, might have started a trend in offshore large scale server management.
If anyone doubted the scale of the project, they only need look at the expected date of completion for the data center. Work will wrap up in 2014.
Do you think Facebook will grow even more outside the US? Chime in using the comments below.
source: http://www.sitetrail.com/2011/11/01/facebook-to-build-new-data-center-costing-72.3-million-per-year/