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Look At Facebook's Gorgeous New Data Center Built With Its Game-Changing Servers

Jun 13, 2013, 02:54 IST

FacebookFacebook's Luleå, Sweden, data centerFacebook's newest data center, built at the edge of the arctic circle in Luleå, Sweden, came online today.

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Look at the picture. Notice what's missing? Not a single logo from a single manufacturer.

Instead, this new data is filled entirely with the funky-looking custom servers and other hardware that Facebook designed itself with its game-changing Open Compute Project.

Facebook, via the OCP, gives away those designs for free to any enterprise that wants to build "vanity free" hardware, meaning super fast servers without a lot of bells, whistles, and design waste.

The OCP project is about two years old now and it has become a phenom that has grown far beyond Facebook and far beyond servers. OCP is also tackling storage and network gear.

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Facebook's ultimate goal is to do for hardware what Linux did for software: create open source hardware where users are calling the shots, not just hardware vendors.

The Luleå data center is cool for another reason. It's 100% powered by renewable hydro-electric energy.

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