{"id":10389,"date":"2013-06-14T12:44:50","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T17:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10389"},"modified":"2013-06-14T12:44:50","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T17:44:50","slug":"facebook-saves-datacenter-costs-with-frigid-arctic-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10389","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Saves Datacenter Costs with Frigid Arctic Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The constant, biting wind may have stunted the growth of Lulea\u2019s tourism industry, but it has proven a big factor in luring big IT facilities into the area. Datacenters in Lulea are just as difficult to power and cool as any other concentrated mass of IT equipment, but their owners can slash the cost of cooling all those servers and storage units simply by opening a window: the temperature in Lulea hasn\u2019t stayed at or above 86 degrees Fahrenheit for 24 hours since 1961 (PDF), and <a href=\"http:\/\/thenodepole.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/lulea_facts111027.pdf\">the average temperature is a bracing 29.6 Fahrenheit<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/topic\/datacenter\/facebook-saves-datacenter-costs-with-frigid-arctic-wind\/\">Facebook Saves Datacenter Costs with Frigid Arctic Wind<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The constant, biting wind may have stunted the growth of Lulea\u2019s tourism industry, but it has proven a big factor in luring big IT facilities into the area. Datacenters in Lulea are just as difficult to power and cool as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10389\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[41,598,187],"class_list":["post-10389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-data-centers","tag-european","tag-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}