Datacentre will be powered mainly by renewables and handle all data processing from Europe, the Middle East and Africa

Facebook is building a ‘green’ datacentre in Sweden, the social networking giant’s first datacentre outside the US.

The company has said that it had picked the northern Swedish city of Lulea, just 100km south of the Arctic Circle, because of its access to renewable energy and the cold climate that is crucial for keeping the servers cool.