A cold climate, clean energy and one of the most stable electricity grids in the world have made Sweden very hot property in the IT giants’ quest for data centre locations in Europe. In October, the social network Facebook announced that it is to build its new data centre in Lulea, Sweden, on the edge of the Arctic Circle. 

Now, ten Swedish regions unite in an effort to attract more data centres. Their hunt for future data storage investments will start with a circuit of Silicon Valley to meet with major IT companies. The Swedish government is supporting the initiative via its investment promotion agency, Invest Sweden. “Other global companies examine the benefits of following in Facebook’s path discovering the economic benefits of establishing in Sweden and the quality of our energy infrastructure” says Invest Sweden’s Tomas Sokolnicki, Manager of the Swedish Datacenter Initiative.

Source: Cloud Tweaks

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