Facebook’s new server farm in the northern Swedish city of Lulea is the firm’s first outside the U.S. - in a location chosen because the fierce cold will help to keep the company’s racks of high-performance computers cool.
Facebook looked at several sites across Europe, and picked Lulea for its cold climate. The move will see Facebook become faster for users across Europe.
‘Facebook has more users outside the U.S. than inside,’ Facebook director of site operations Tom Furlong said. ‘It was time for us to expand in Europe.’
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It is good for Facebook; they save lots of money in electricity costs for cooling servers and create a lot of work in Northern Sweden, which has high unemployment.