Facebook chose the city Pipe |
"Statistics show that since 1961 has not happened here, the temperature remains above the 30th grade more than 24 hours. Here the average temperature is about 2 degrees Celsius," said Mets Engman, director of the Science Park Aurorum who tries to attract and other computer giants.
The plan is to build a Facebook three large halls for the servers, an area the size of 11 football pitches.
Although servers will cool naturally, their maintenance will require 120 MW power, which will cost 45 million pounds annually. Electricity will be supplied by dams constructed of local river.
In the year 2007, Microsoft announced plans to build server farms of Siberia, but the project remained unrealized. In 2009, Google bought the abandoned factory in southern Finland, which began to build its server farm.
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