{"id":15263,"date":"2015-06-16T09:43:04","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T09:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/?p=228282"},"modified":"2015-06-16T09:43:04","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T09:43:04","slug":"facebook-to-build-open-compute-datacentre-in-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/facebook-to-build-open-compute-datacentre-in-ireland\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook to build Open Compute datacentre in Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_206931\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/122\/files\/2014\/11\/Facebook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-206931\" alt=\"Facebook plans to build a datacentre in Ireland, its second in Europe\" src=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/122\/files\/2014\/11\/Facebook-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook plans to build a datacentre in Ireland, its second in Europe<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Facebook this week revealed plans to build an Open Compute datacentre in a bid to support its growth ambitions in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed location of the new datacentre in County Meath will enable the company to make use of local renewable energy sources and talent, and would be the social media giant\u2019s second in Europe. The first, in Lulea, Sweden, uses 100 per cent hydroelectricity to power its servers.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook said the datacentre could generate hundreds of millions of euros in economic benefits for the region. The project is being supported by the by the Department of Jobs through IDA Ireland. Martin Shanahan, the organisation\u2019s chief executive said: \u201cFacebook\u2019s existing relationship with Ireland is extremely strong and extensive in scope, but the news that the company wants to build its second European data centre in a regional location such as Meath will cement the relationship even further.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIreland has been a home for Facebook since 2007 and today\u2019s planning application demonstrates our continued interest to invest in Ireland,\u201d said Facebook\u2019s datacentre strategy head Rachel Peterson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope to build an innovative, environmentally friendly data centre that will help us continue to connect people in Ireland and around the world \u2013 while supporting local job creation and Ireland\u2019s successful technology economy. We look forward to continuing our conversations with the Clonee community in coming weeks,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook has less than a handful of datacentres globally but the data volumes it generates \u2013 and the infrastructure it needs to support its services \u2013 is significant. The company adds 300 million new photos every day, has a data warehouse of over 300 petabytes and processes hundreds of terabytes of data daily. And given nearly three quarters of Facebook users are outside the US, its build-out in Europe and other key strategic regions (India for instance) outside North America will likely continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook this week revealed plans to build an Open Compute datacentre in a bid to support its growth ambitions in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1992,2040,353,1976],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datacentre","category-europe","category-facebook","category-news-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15264,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15263\/revisions\/15264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}