Companies like Facebook simply cannot survive if they do not have a decent enough data center that can handle the amazing amount of data that come their way every single minute – with a few hundred million active users, all posting status updates, uploading photos and videos, and other kinds of interaction. Well, it looks like Facebook has plans for a new data center that will be located in Clonee, Ireland, and this particular center will be known as EU2, making it the second one in the European Union and sixth across the planet. In other words, Facebook has done their bit to shore things up on the back end, which could also be a positive signal of the future of Facebook.
Expect work to kick off not too far down the road on the site that measures a whopping 227 acres, and EU2 ought to come online some time later next year at best, or in early 2018 at worst. It was back in 2013 that we saw Facebook open up their very first data center in Europe that was in Lulea, Sweden, and both of these data centers in Europe will rely on renewable energy for their power needs – 100% of it. This is good news for the planet, don’t you think so?
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