Mark Zuckerberg revealed how to heat the company's server system
Specifically, the Facebook database centers in Sweden used giant fans to . suck air from outside to inside.
Facebook owner, Mark Zuckerberg, recently wanted users to know the most advanced technologies being used by the company in their products. Specifically, he announced on his personal page that he will start posting the technologies that Facebook is building, starting with the image of one of the database systems in Europe.
A database system in Europe.
In the first post of this series, Zuckerberg shared the Facebook facility image in Luleå (Sweden) and said: "This is an important link in our infrastructure, and it uses local resources to increase efficiency and save energy ".
A Facebook facility.
Zuckerberg further explained: "Currently, the weather here is always below 10 degrees Celsius, so we use a huge fan system to draw air from the outside to cool the system thousands of servers here Recently there have been many hydropower plants, providing clean and reliable energy sources to our data center, resulting in a 10% increase in overall system performance and less than 40% usage. power compared to traditional database system ".
Huge fans to . suck air from outside to inside.
The post of the Facebook owner revealed the inherent drawback of today's database server systems. It uses too much energy and most of that energy is wasted into wasted heat. Reportedly, Facebook is not the first company to use natural elements for heat dissipation for servers, Microsoft previously tested the server system under the sea, to take advantage of seawater to cool.
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