Facebook built its first non-US data centre in northern Sweden to take advantage of low energy costs and free cooling - among many other reasons
When Facebook opened its data centre in Luleå in northern Sweden, the first it had built outside of the US, it raised more than a few eyebrows - and questions. Why Sweden? Why so far away from any ...
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