The agreement will give Facebook’s huge server halls 100 percent electricity through hydro power from the Lule River, Vattenfall’s web site reads.
The facility in Luleå was opened last week and is Facebook’s first datacenter outside the US.
The social networking giant aims to get at least 25 percent of its energy mix from clean and renewable sources until 2015, and the access to clean energy was an important factor when the company decided to locate the computer center in Luleå.
- Facebook had a specific request and was very clear that they were seeking an electricity supplier who could supply them with electricity from the Lule River, which we can guarantee and deliver, says Anders Dahl, Vattenfall Sweden Director and Head of Distribution & Sales.
Facebook is not the only major Internet company to pursue clean energy from Scandinavia. Earlier this month Google, the world’s largest search engine, announced that it had signed a ten-year purchase deal on renewable energy from a wind mill farm in Northern Sweden for its new data-center in Finland.
