Facebook is preparing to inject a hefty sum of money in Odense, Denmark, where the company is deploying a new data center of massive proportions.
The enterprise aims to raise three large server buildings that are said to occupy 184,000 square meters (2 million square feet) in the commercial area of Tietgenbyen.
Documents show that Cassin Networks ApS is in charge of the construction site, as the company purchased the 500,000-square meter (5.4 million square foot-) patch of land for as much as 68 million Danish kroner ($10 million). Insiders from the company hinted that Cassin Networks is actually a façade for Facebook, which aims to expand the number of its overseas data centers.
Facebook already has two data centers placed outside of the United States. Just recently, Mark Zuckerberg, the helm of Facebook, shared images from the massive Luleå data center in Sweden.
The wheels are in motion for starting construction on the Odense data center. Reports indicate that a fence already guards the perimeter, and security personnel were deployed to the site. The contractor for the project is Mace, an international consultancy and construction company.
Cowi, an international consulting group with important know-how in engineering, environmental science and economics, drafted the official VVM report (an environmental impact assessment) of the project. According to the VVM assessment, Cassin Facebook aims to build an administration building, three server rooms, a substation as well as emergency power generators.
The server rooms will cover 92,000 square meters (1 million square feet).
Although the financial investment in the new data center is based on guesswork, Facebook is thought to put a lot of money in the Odense facility.
The Luleå data center, which started working three years ago, counted an investment of about 3.8 billion Swedish kroner ($450 million). From that sum, about 1.5 billion Swedish kroner ($175 million) went directly into the national economy via supplies, construction work, technical and mechanical assistance along with logistics services.
An important slice of the total sum went into computers at net services, which the company had to import from outside Sweden. Looking at the construction plans for the Odense data center, it seems that the Danish facility will be larger than the Swedish one.
Facebook also started work on a data center in Clonee, Ireland, where the company will invest about $220 million.
So far, no authorities in Denmark commented on the Odense data center or the (un)official big tech brand behind it.
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