‘Facebook effect’ turns Swedish steel town into tech hot-spot


  • TECH
  • Tuesday, 08 May 2018

Joel Kjellgren, Data Center Manager walks in one of the server rooms at the new Facebook Data Center, its first outside the US on November 7, 2013 in Lulea, in Swedish Lapland. The company began construction on the facility in October 2011 and went live on June 12, 2013 and are 100% run on hydro power. AFP PHOTO/JONATHAN NACKSTRAND

OSLO: Facebook will double the size of its datacentre in Sweden's northern city of Lulea, raising its total investments in the region to about 8.7bil crowns (RM3.88bil), the company said on May 7.

The campus, opened in 2013, is the first Facebook data centre set up outside the United States.

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