Inside Facebook's Enormous Arctic Data Center
On Wednesday, Mark Zuckerberg began what he claimed will become a regular effort to share pictures of Facebook's most advanced technologies from around the globe.
The first set of pictures that he's sharing is from the Luleå data center in Sweden. Because of the data center's naturally frigid location, the immense amount of heat generated by the center's servers can be cooled just by a set of hydroelectric fans powered by a nearby river.