Sweden Pitching for More Data Centers

Data Center Knowledge (Feb 21 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

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   Building on the arrival of a huge Facebook data center, economic development officials in Sweden are marketing the country as an ideal location for data center development.

   Ten Swedish regions are uniting in an effort to attract more data centers, an initiative supported by the Swedish government through  its investment promotion agency, Invest Sweden. The effort will start with a tour of Silicon Valley to meet with major IT companies.

   

   In October Facebookannounced plans to build its first facility outside the United States in Sweden. The location takes advantage of the cool climate in Lulea, a seaside town of 45,000 located at approximately the same latitude as Fairbanks, Alaska. That cool weather will allow Facebook to use outside air to cool the tens of thousands of servers that will occupy the new campus. Facebook also was  influenced by the stability of the Swedish power grid, which allowed it ...

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