We click and it works, we just have to look for our friends and there will be their uploaded and tagged photos, their publications, those fantastic GIFs, but ... Where is all this data really stored? Facebook has decided to share for the first time the most spectacular photos of its data center established in Sweden and known as "Arctic". This data center holds the exclusivity of being the only data center that Facebook owns outside of the United States of America. If you want to see more details about the "Facebook hard drive", do not miss these fantastic photos that they have decided to share with all of us.
The reason why it is known as "Arctic", in addition to its geographical location in Lulea (Sweden) It is quite evident, all these devices require significant cooling, they get too hot and this can corrupt the components and be fatal, like any electronic device today. For this they use the best air conditioning that mother nature can provide, the natural air temperature. The city of Lulea is located only approximately 100 km from the Arctic, so temperatures can sometimes reach lethal cold, hence Facebook saves significant amounts of money in energy to cool the data center.
But it is not the only ecological thing, the energy necessary to maintain the system (which is not little) is provided by a hydroelectric plant located in a nearby river. According to Mark Zuckerberg, involved in many projects of this nature lately, this center is 10% more efficient and uses 40% less energy than traditional ones. The vision it allows us is amazing. The preferred place to share the photographs has been none other than Mark Zuckerberg's official Facebook, it would be missing more, so if you want to take a look at some more, you know, you have to go through Facebook.
