Led by the Swedish King Carl Gustav the The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences visited the Facebook data center in Luleå in The Node Pole on Tuesday 16th October. In October of last year Facebook announced that the social network will locate its new data center in The Node Pole. The Luleå Data Center will consist of three server buildings with an area of 28 000 m2 (300 000 ft2) each. Construction takes place in three phases and began instantly. The data center will be Facebook's third, and the first one outside the US. It will also be the northernmost data center of its size in the world. The Node Pole holds perfect conditions to create bespoke construction solutions for high tech, electricity intensive construction such as data centers. In addition to having an extremely stable electricity infrastructure, The Node Pole region provides natural cooling and renewable hydropower with low energy costs. It is also one of the most geologically, politically and socially stable areas in the world. www.thenodepole.com Produced by Svante Wiklund

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