Facebook expansion confirms Nordics as leading hyperscale cluster

Facebook has announced an expansion of its site in Lule?, Sweden, to almost double its current size, with the construction of a third server hall of 50 000 m2. This confirms the Nordics as a growing hyperscale cluster in Europe, providing both financial and environmental sustainability for a fast-growing global industry.

Tuesday, 8th May 2018 Posted 6 years ago in by Phil Alsop

The expansion of the Lule? site makes the campus larger than 100 000 m²/ 1 000 000 sq ft, and among the largest in the world. Facebook opened the Lule? data center in 2013, its first outside the US.

- Sweden and the Nordics have once again shown that we are a prime location for energy-intensive industries. The combination of strong connectivity, vast amounts of affordable, renewable energy, innovation capability and a cool climate makes us a leading hyperscale cluster globally, comments Patrik ?hlund, CEO of Node Pole.

The environmental benefits of locating a hyperscale data center campus in Sweden are extremely positive. More information about this can be found on the Node Pole website*.

- With the establishment of the Facebook data center, the Swedish data center industry was put in the global spotlight for the first time. Many actors used this momentum to build up the industry and today the data center industry is considered a vital part of our economy, says Christoffer Svanberg, CMO at Node Pole.

In 2017, the Swedish government also recognized the data center industry as an emerging base industry and cut the tax rate on electricity for data centers by 97%, to the same level as other heavy industries as steelworks and car plants. This means that Sweden now has the lowest energy cost in the EU, with the lowest carbon footprint.

- Interest in establishing operations in Sweden is higher than ever. We offer an excellent business climate, and an opportunity for corporations such as Facebook to lead the global change for a sustainable society, says Christoffer Svanberg, CMO at Node Pole.