Tom Furlong, Facebook Director of Operations, announces Thursday Oct. 27, 2011 in Lulea, Sweden, that it's new server farm on the edge of the Arctic Circle, it's first outside the U.S. will improve performance for European users of the social networking site. Facebook confirmed Thursday it had picked the northern Swedish city of Lulea for the data center partly because of the cold climate — crucial for keeping the servers cool — and access to renewable energy from nearby hydropower facilities.
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