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This is how it's done. Compare that to building a new mega-datacenter in Texas. (HP, I'm looking at you!)

Facebook's smart for taking advantage of the cold and such, but there are a lot of factors that go into choosing a location. Tax incentives, proximity to users, and a million other things I'm not aware of.

And while they will probably save massively on the electricity bill and carbon emissions for this, it's not like energy is prohibitively expensive here in Texas...

> it's not like energy is prohibitively expensive here in Texas...

This kind of wilful inefficiency is killing US businesses.

Businesses aim to maximise profits, not Carnot efficiency.

Of course - FB just probably needs a server farm close to North Europe users. Still, it's a big eco-plus in my book.

Cooling will be achieved by placing a VLS (Very Large Stetson) over the data center.

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