Facebook is building a second 25 000 square meters server farm in Luleå, Sweden, in less than a year. In an effort to improve efficiency, it’s shipping equipment to the facility in tightly packed boxes not unlike those you find in an IKEA.
The whole setup is called the “Rapid Deployment Data Center” and Facebook expects this will become a new global standard for the company, allowing teams on different continents it to consistently and quickly set up the same high-quality, high-efficiency facilities.
In other words, the manual for setting up a Facebook data center could soon look an awful lot like Ikea instructions: Simple, clever, multilingual, and surprisingly short...
By using prefabricated modules should Facebook be able to set up the hall twice as fast as previously.
The first data-center