Facebook to Open New Data Centre in Ireland

The social networking giant will deploy the use of wind resources for power at the center.

Facebook data center. (Photo: Facebook Blog)

Facebook will construct a data centre facility in Ireland’s Clonee village that will become part of the infrastructure that enables billions of people to connect on the social networking platform, Messenger, Instagram and more, the social networking giant has announced.

<p> Clonee, County Meath, will be the site for our newest data center. The Clonee data center will be our first in Ireland and follows Lulea, in Sweden, as our second in Europe</p>

<a href="http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2016/01/county-meath/"><b> Tom Furlong, Vice President – Infrastructure, Facebook </b></a>

The 227-acre site will be packed full of cutting-edge technology, making it one of the most advanced, efficient and sustainable data centres in the world.

<p>All the racks, servers, and other components have been designed and built from scratch as part of the Open Compute Project, an industry-wide coalition of companies dedicated to creating energy- and cost-efficient infrastructure solutions and sharing them as open source. <br></p>

<a href="http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2016/01/county-meath/"><b>Tom Furlong, Vice President – Infrastructure, Facebook</b></a>

The Clonee data centre will be powered by 100 percent renewable energy thanks to Ireland’s robust wind resources which will help Facebook reach its goal of powering 50 percent of its infrastructure by the end of 2018.

Ireland has been Facebook’s international headquarters since 2009.

This will be Facebook’s sixth data centre facility. Other sites include Altoona, Iowa; Forest City, North Carolina; Lulea, Sweden; and the original one in Prineville, Oregon.

Facebook has confirmed that it would be building another data centre in Fort Worth, Texas.