Next Up On Facebook's Data Center List: Taiwan

Facebook will follow up its announcement of a European data center in Luleå, Sweden, with a similar initiative in Asia, at Central Taiwan Science Park.

Facebook will follow up its announcement of a European data center in Luleå, Sweden, with a similar initiative in Asia, at Central Taiwan Science Park.

China Economic News Service said the Facebook facility will be Asia’s largest cloud data center, occupying the space of 180 basketball courts, or some 720,000 square feet.

Facebook is denying the report, however, with spokesman Michael Kirkland saying, “We have no plans to build a data center in Taiwan.”

CENS added that Facebook will purchase servers from manufacturers in Taiwan in order to cut costs, predicting that Wistron will handle procurement, with Gigabyte and Quanta in the mix.

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