Why is the main data center Facebook opened on the edge of the Arctic circle

The world's largest social network Facebook opened a data center on the edge of the Arctic circle in luleå, Sweden. The place chosen for a reason: subarctic climate, help to make energy consumption for cooling servers minimal. This is the first center outside the United States, and Facebook has called it "one of the most efficient in the world."





This is where a social network with an audience of one billion users.
Enormous social network Facebook was founded in 2004 by mark Zuckerberg and his roommates during training at the University of Harvard.
By the way, there is not just the servers and cooling system and restrooms.





First the website was called Thefacebоok and was available only for students of Harvard University, after which registration has opened for other universities in Boston, and later for students of all educational institutions in the USA that had an email address in the domain .edu.





Since September 2006, website available to all Internet users aged 13 years who have an email address. Facebook has chosen Sweden for new construction because of the "stable political situation, low risk of natural disasters and excellent conditions of communication."





Local subarctic climate helps to make the energy consumption for cooling servers minimal.

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