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<b>STOCKHOLM: Facebook says it has started processing data through its first server farm outside the United States, on the edge of the Arctic Circle in Sweden.</b><br />
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The company inaugurated servers in the new, 300,000-square foot (28,000-square meter) facility outside the city Lulea Wednesday, saying it should improve the social network's performance in Europe.<br />
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Facebook director of site operations Tom Furlong said the servers will serve a large chunk of Facebook's European users.<br />
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Facebook is one of nine major U.S. Internet providers whose customers usage is swept up every day by an NSA countererror surveillance program.<br />
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The secret court order that authorizes the program, named <b>PRISM</b>, only allows it to examine foreigners internet usage oversease.<br />
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Furlong said the data stored in Sweden is replicated in other locations in the U.S.<br />
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Facebook starts first servers outside the US

STOCKHOLM: Facebook says it has started processing data through its first server farm outside the United States, on the edge of the Arctic Circle in Sweden. The company inaugurated servers in the new, 300,000-square foot (28,000-square meter) facili…