Norrbotten County · SE1

Luleå

What has Meta actually published about Luleå, and what remains a 2011 announcement? Luleå is the municipality of Meta’s campus, described by the company as its first data center outside the United States and as operational from 2013. Meta describes outdoor-air cooling and local hydropower. Current IT or facility megawatts are not stated on the cited Meta page. The 2011 Associated Press energy-need figure remains an announcement with an undefined metric. A municipal slogan about northern power is not a connection agreement.

Read the Meta careers page first as the operator existence-and-design note. Read the 2011 Associated Press item second, as a dated announcement, not as a live meter. Read the Norrbotten county file third so that Boden’s Hydro66 record is not merged into this campus. Read SE1 fourth. Then ask Luleå municipality which detailed plans and building permits govern further expansion. Boverket explains the instrument; the municipal archive holds the files.

Luleå sits in SE1. Hydropower language on an operator page is a description of energy supply as the company presents it. It is not a published connection agreement with a defined import capacity, voltage, or energization milestone. The network owner for a further building is a separate counterpart. Svenska kraftnät’s indicative map does not replace that counterpart and does not show the local network.

The cited Meta page does not restate the number of buildings in operation. It does not publish current megawatts. The 2011 wording stored in this register is that the site “will need 120 MW of energy.” That sentence is not used as current operating capacity. PUE figures that appear in other Meta materials are operator figures from their own methods and years; they are not converted here into a megawatt series.

Common misreads: treating 120 MW as today’s IT load; treating outdoor-air cooling as a permit; treating Luleå and Boden as one campus; treating SE1 as a yes to the next hall; filling current megawatts from a secondary directory. Another misread is to treat “first outside the United States” as a capacity disclosure.

Ask which buildings on the campus are in operation, and on what date that was last stated by the operator. Ask which municipal planning documents govern further expansion. Ask which 2011 energy-need figure remains an announcement rather than a measured load. Ask which network owner would answer a further import request. If current megawatts are still undisclosed, leave them unknown.

Keep Boden out of this campus total. Hydro66 Svenska is a company record in the next municipality, not a Meta building. Gävle and Sandviken sit in SE2. Sollefteå’s 50-hectare development sits in SE2. None of those files publish a current first-party megawatt that can be added to Luleå. A northern cluster slide that adds them has left the sources cited here.

If a later Meta page states current megawatts or a building list, add that page as a new dated source. Until then the 2011 announcement and the 2013 operational claim remain the dated rows. Unknown current capacity stays unknown. It is not stored as 120 MW and it is not stored as zero.

This municipality brief proves that Luleå has a documented Meta campus with operator-described cooling and hydropower and with no current megawatt on the cited page. It does not prove residual municipal grid capacity and does not invent additional Luleå projects.

Questions for a concrete establishment

• Which buildings on the campus are in operation, and on what date was that last stated by the operator?
• What municipal planning documents govern further expansion?
• Which 2011 energy-need figure remains an announcement rather than a measured load?
• Which network owner would issue a written position for a further import?
• Is Boden’s Hydro66 record being kept out of this campus total?
• Is SE1 or hydropower wording being treated as a connection agreement?

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