Swedish wind power Google's Finnish servers - Elektroniktidningen

Wind Electricity from Sweden will run Google’s newly Finnish data center in Hamina in northern Finland. Google, like competitor Facebook chose to build was his great server facility in Scandinavia – Facebook in Luleå and Google in Hamina.

Reason is the cold climate that allows the cooling of the servers can be operated by air directly from the outside for much of the year and that in the Nordic countries are safe supply of renewable electricity.

Thanks to the agreement with Google has wind developer O2 secured financing of the new wind farm through a loan from the German insurance company Allianz.

Maervara project comprises 24 turbines with a capacity of 72 MW – 12 turbines in Pajala and 12 Övertorneå. When the wind farm is fully operational in 2015 Allianz takes over ownership.

Maevaara wind farm will be located in an area between the villages Ohtanajärvi and Suaningi in Pajala and Aapua in Övertorneå. The land is owned by the state forestry company Sveaskog.

Learn Maervaara project here. (Link)

Learn Electronics magazine article about Facebook in Luleå. (Link)