Facebook announces new 100% renewable energy data centre
Social networking giant will build a new data centre in Ireland that will be its second in Europe 100% powered by renewable energy
Facebook will build a new data centre in Ireland that will be 100 per cent powered by renewable energy and the project will be the social networking giant’s second in Europe.
The company's Vice President of Infrastructure, Tom Furlong, confirmed the move on the company’s Newsroom, and said the new data centre would be built in Clonee, County Meath.
All the centre’s servers and components are newly designed and built as part of the Open Compute Project, an industry-wide coalition of firms dedicated to improving energy and cost efficient infrastructure solutions.
The data centre will be 100 per cent powered by renewable energy provide by wind power installations in Ireland.
Facebook’s Luleå data centre in Sweden is also 100 per cent powered by renewable energy and in construction was able to minimize the number of backup generators needed onsite by 70 per cent.
The new project, which will cost an estimated €200 million, will be Facebook’s sixth data centre and the firms second in Europe, after the Luleå data centre in Sweden.
The Clonee data centre will be used for worldwide data usage from Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and other Facebook traffic.
Furlong said the data centre will be “one of the most advanced, efficient, and sustainable data centres in the world.”
Facebook is aiming to cover 50 per cent of its infrastructure with renewable energy by 2019.
