Clonee, County Meath, will be the site for Facebook's newest data center in Ireland, the company announced. The Clonee data center will be Facebook's first in Ireland and follows Lulea, in Sweden, as its second in Europe. The facility will become part of the infrastructure that enables billions of people to connect with the people on Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and more.

Facebook says that Clonee will be one of the most advanced, efficient and sustainable data centers in the world. All the racks, servers, and other components have been designed and built from scratch as part of the Open Compute Project, an industry-wide coalition of companies dedicated to creating energy- and cost-efficient infrastructure solutions and sharing them as open source.

The new data center in Clonee will be powered by 100 percent renewable energy, thanks to Ireland?s wind resources. This will help Facebook reach its goal of powering 50 percent of our infrastructure with clean and renewable energy by the end of 2018.

Ireland has been Facebook's international headquarters since 2009, and the new Clonee data center will continue Facebook?s investment in the country and in Europe.