Luleå is a small coastal town just south of the Arctic Circle, and it's surrounded by dense forests and icy rivers. The facility opened in 2013 and was Facebook's first data center outside the U.S.
It consists of three data centers spanning a total of 1.0 million square feet. Meta has invested $835 million (DKK 13 billion) in the campus over a period of 11 years. In terms of resource consumption, the Luleå data centers consume 267,471 MWh of electricity annually and withdraw 6.7 million gallons (25.4 million liters) of water per year. Because of its location, close to the Arctic Circle, the Lulea Data Center is powered almost entirely by existing hydropower.
2013: Facebooked opened it's first facility
2014: Facebook opened a 2nd facility
2018: Announced an expansion that would double the size of the campus. The 3rd building would be nearly 50,000 square meters and would be launched in early 2021
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| 0.22 miles | ThreeInterested in this information?Contact us |
This data center is a part of Facebook's Luleå Campus in Sweden.
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| 0.22 miles | Station GammaInterested in this information?Contact us |
This data center is a part of Facebook's Luleå Campus in Sweden.
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| 0.82 miles | CoreInterested in this information?Contact us |
Hive Digital Technologies operates a crypto mining facility in Notviken, Sweden, with a hashrate of 45 PH/s.
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| 17.65 miles | Ardent: Boden |
In 2021, Northern Data, formerly known as Northern Bitcoin, bought Hydro66's renewable-powered data center operating in the "Node Pole" region of Northern Sweden.
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| 18.58 miles | North PlazaInterested in this information?Contact us |
Hive Digital Technologies operates a second crypto mining facility in Boden, with a hashrate of 280 PH/s.
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| 19.00 miles | Core ValleyInterested in this information?Contact us |
Founded in 2004, Facebook needs no introduction as the world's largest social network. All the status updates, family photos and videos add up and create a need for a massive amount of storage and compute. Facebook maintains a growing stable of data centers spread across the world.
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