Pictures: tour to Facebook data center near Arctic Circle

11year-old, in the February 4, 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg launched his thefacebook, which allows communication between the American university students. Over the years, the name of the project to turn into a giant company with offices all over the Alm.aleom we toured together in one of the new data centers for this company in the Arctic, specifically in the Swedish city of Lulea. This center is one of the addresses of data that is shared between this social network users around the world.

  This center has become one of the largest data centers for the company outside the United States Altdh.omen likely to be one of the most efficient and sustainable data centers in the world

 All the equipment in the center of the local hydroelectric power plant, which provides electricity from renewable energy sources, and thus reduce the number of back-up generators for more than 70%.

 In addition to the energy produced from water, cold air is also used to cool the servers that store photos, videos and comments ... etc. and use excess heat to maintain the temperature inside the offices.

 Facebook social network initiated the creation of a society which aims to design high-performance equipment with minimal use of plastic and metal in Bnaúha.hzh designs are available to all, so that they can use it, or improve it.