The Facebook Data Center Detached from a Sci-Fi Movie

Hi-Tech Nilgun Salim
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Why spend a fortune on sophisticated server cooling systems when you can build a massive data center located in a cold region?

The large-scale project was put on paper a few years ago when Facebook invested $1,8 billion in the Lulea center.

This is the first Facebook facility of this kind, built by the company outside of U.S, where they already opened four data centers.

In the Swedish city, the average temperature during winter is -20 Celsius degrees and the cold air from outside is pumped into the center with huge fans, measuring 300 m x 100 meters.

In the facility works 150 locals and is called the ‘The Node Pole’.

Mark Zuckerberg gave us a rare glimpse in the center opened in 2013.

To maintain an ideal operating of the servers is not an easy task and the consumption of the energy represented a literal headache for the companies.

To reduce costs, many tried to use artificial intelligence or explored the idea of creating a subaquatic data center.

For Facebook the solution was quite simple: they moved their data center into a cold country.

Zuckerberg released the pictures with the purpose of showing the world ‘the advance technology that Facebook is building around the world’.

However, according to The Verge, the best word to describe the facility is ‘tough’. Apparently, the freezing temperatures took hold of every single corner. The colors that dominate the center are gray and dark blue and the decors seems detached from a Sci-Fi movie.