Facebook in Ireland: Our newest data center
Jan 25, 2016Thomas Furlong
Summary
This post announces the construction of Meta's new data center in Clonee, Ireland. It highlights the facility's commitment to 100% renewable energy and its utilization of advanced Open Compute Project (OCP) hardware, specifically mentioning Yosemite for compute and fabric, Wedge, and 6-pack for the network stack. The data center is positioned as a central component of Facebook's global infrastructure.
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