A look at Facebook’s massive new five acre data center near the Arctic circle

Servers inside data centers are the backbone of Internet services such as Facebook. The servers store and transmit billions of status updates, links, photos and all the outside apps used by Facebook’s members.

FaceBook Artic circle data center

Facebook’s new server farm in the northern Swedish city of Lulea is the firm’s first outside the U.S. – in a location chosen because the fierce cold will help to keep the company’s racks of high-performance computers cool.

Facebook looked at several sites across Europe, and picked Lulea for its cold climate. The move will see Facebook become faster for users across Europe.

You can read more about it at the Daily Mail.

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SEO fans: You need the SEO Copywriting Cheat Sheet

If you write anything online, or otherwise concern yourself with SEO, Ian Lurie of Conversation Marketing has a free gift you should check out. It is the SEO Copywriting Cheat Sheet, a printable little nugget that gives you some basic, yet helpful reminders for every time you write.

SEO Copywriting Cheat Sheet

Like I said, it is free, but there are a lot of other cool things you can see and learn over at Converstation Marketing, so please head over there to download the SEO Copywriting Cheat Sheet pdf.


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Data Security Geeks Will Love This: How Visa Protects Your Data

How Visa Protects Your Data

“Even in the event of the Apocalypse, we could run for at least a week.”

Michael Fitzgerald from Fast Company takes a rare, inside look at Visa’s top-secret data security center. And it is awesome. (more…)

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