Facebook Builds Data Center Near Arctic Circle

[alidan]

[citation][nom]jacekring[/nom]Ummm...did you miss that whole thing that happened over in Japan with 4 of their nuclear reactors?BTW: what happened to the news coverage of that incident??? There is nothing newer then June when they upgraded the severity level to that of Chernobyl. Which btw, is the MAXIMUM severity level we have established. A 7 out of a possible 7 on the nuclear disaster scale. The impacts of the radiation are not yet fully understood, as to what it will do to us here in the U.S.A and over in Europe. But it's safe to consider all sea food from within a few hundred KM of the nuclear plants to be radioactive and unhealthy for consumption. Probably within a year or two that radiation will spread all the way to the U.S. west coast, and I will refuse to eat any sea food fished from that side of the planet. High radiation levels (700 Bq/kg) has already been found in Plankton (a major fish food source) over 200km south of the nuclear plants.[/citation]

ok, how many tsunamis hit america in the mid west?
how many areas are low tornado risk?

the main crap with the japan tsunami is they stored the radioactive material on site, and there was an investigation into people running those plants were bribing people checking them for violations even before the tsunami hit.

just because they can fail, doesnt mean we should not build it.

you think a sky scraper wont be built again just because a plane can hit it or an earth quake can happen?

 

[captaincharisma]

[citation][nom]posteris[/nom]2 years later: Greenpeace will protest against Facebook servers, because they doubled ice melting rate[/citation]

who would have thought the end of the world would really be because of Zynga's games

 

[eddieroolz]

Contributing to disturbance of pristine arctic land.

 

[keyanf]

Great, now even hiding out in the arctic won't get me away from this pointless nonsense.

 

[syrious1]

this is where all your 'deleted' profiles are stored. they never get rid of your data, obviously.

 

[pawntec]

hey could put it in the arctic circle if they did it in alaska instead :-D

 

[hypetype15]

Cool idea,Cool place COOL DATA CENTER..less cost in COOLING SYSTEM...

 

[BulkZerker]

Now watch it cause a strike with Sweden's Labor Unions.

[citation][nom]Uberragen21[/nom]Good for cooling, bad for latency.[/citation]
What's latency matter when all your gonna do on FB is status updates and farmville?

[citation][nom]jacekring[/nom]Ummm...did you miss that whole thing that happened over in Japan with 4 of their nuclear reactors?*snip*[/citation]

Cool rant bro. Did you forget that Unlike Japan most continents (USA being a prime one, and sited by the OP) not on the Pacific Ring of Fire? The idea of using Nuclear reactors is very good in regions that benefit from being stable. Of course you have a problem with waste fuel but what non renewable resource power plant doesn't have that problem? And lets not even go into what kind of environmental issues damns cause, and catastrophes they can cause if they fail.

Though I too am concerned about Japan's cleanup effort. Even if what was claimed (it's worse than chernobyl) is pure fecal matter. Unlike Chernobyl the main bulk of the material has been contained.