UAE- Facebook's Ireland data centre to be world's most advanced

Date

1/26/2016 3:51:04 AM

(MENAFN- Khaleej Times)

Introducing the social network's second European data centre he said "I'm proud to share that Facebook's sixth data centre is now under construction in Clonee Ireland. This will be our second European data centre after Lule in Sweden."

Data centres deliver all of Facebook's services to the millions of users. Of course they are some of the most complex machines created.

Clonee Data Centre is slated to be one of the "most advanced and energy efficient data centres in the world" Zuckerberg added. It will feature the latest server storage and network designs developed through the Open Compute Project and will be powered by 100 per cent renewable energy.

With always a quirk to spare he cited "One interesting engineering detail is that we're cooling the facility with outdoor air but because this is near the Irish Sea we'll be using an indirect air cooling process to filter the salt from the air."

I'm proud to share that Facebook's sixth data center is now under construction in Clonee Ireland. This will be our...

Posted by Mark Zuckerberg onSunday 24 January 2016

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