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The cooling of servers which process most of the data published on our walls uses polar wind.
Facebook chose Luleå, a town based in Northern Sweden, to establish its European data center because it is cold out there.
The cooling of servers which process most of the data published on our walls uses polar wind.
This building with a surface area which equals 17 hockey ice rinks, packed with tens of thousands of servers, can do without any refrigeration unit. It is topped with a bank of fans which, once filtered and dampened, only convey the outdoor air into the building. The ambient temperature is maintained between 20 and 22°C.
Source: Génie climatique magazine
The cooling of servers which process most of the data published on our walls uses polar wind.
This building with a surface area which equals 17 hockey ice rinks, packed with tens of thousands of servers, can do without any refrigeration unit. It is topped with a bank of fans which, once filtered and dampened, only convey the outdoor air into the building. The ambient temperature is maintained between 20 and 22°C.
Source: Génie climatique magazine