Explore the Facebook Data Center: built in the Arctic for power-saving-Facebook, data center-IT information

IT information news on September 30, Facebook is located in the North of Sweden Lulea a new data center, Zuckerberg has recently released the pictures of the new data center and said the benefits of data center was built here is the ability to save air conditioning and heating costs.

It is reported that Facebook's data center floor space equivalent to 6 football pitches, when shuttle technicians need to ride electric cars do. But the data center is only 150 employees, a technician can support up to 25,000 servers.

Lule? town only 70 miles from the Arctic Circle, where temperature is about lingxia50du most of the time. New data center as compared to traditional data center, high efficiency of 10%, but can also save 40% of electricity.

▲ Enormous fan to cool the Arctic air intake to cool the data center thousands of servers

▲ Old and abandoned the hard disk directly destroyed, ensuring user privacy and security

▲ It is reported that the initial design of the data center is completed by an engineer on the napkin

探秘Facebook数据中心：建在北极为省电 - Facebook,数据中心 - IT资讯

IT资讯讯 9月30日消息，Facebook在地处北极的瑞典吕勒奥建立了一个新的数据中心，近日扎克伯格放出了新数据中心的图片，并表示数据中心建在这里的好处是能够省下空调和暖气费。

据悉，Facebook的这个数据中心占地面积相当于6个足球场，技术人员在其中穿梭时需要骑电动车才行。但数据中心却只有150名员工，一位技术人员最多可以支持2.5万台服务器。

吕勒奥小镇离北极圈只有70英里，这里大多数时间气温在零下50度左右。新的数据中心与传统数据中心相比，效率高了10%，同时还可省下40%的电能。

▲巨大的风扇能把北极的凉爽空气吸入数据中心来冷却上万台服务器

▲老旧和废弃的硬盘会直接销毁，确保用户隐私安全

▲据悉这个数据中心最初的设计是一位工程师在这张餐巾上完成的