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Facebook is preparing to build a farm facility in Luleå, northern Sweden. This is the first time that Facebook is building a server farm outside of the U.S. “The climate will allow them to just use only air for cooling the servers,” stated Aurorum Science Park CEO Mats Engman. Aurorum is on a mission to convince other large computing companies. “If you take the statistics, the temperature has not been above 30C [86F] for more than 24 hours since 1961. If you take the average temperature, it’s around 2C [35.6F].”
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