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• n  a region resembling a laboratory inasmuch as it offers opportunities for observation and practice and experimentation

• laboratory

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• Facebook opens first European data center, uses company-designed servers
  Facebook's first European data center in Luleå, Sweden (near the Arctic Circle) is now online, and thus far it's the only facility that's exclusively using servers the company itself designed . Similar to the social network's North Carolina complex that served as testing ground for its outdoor air-cooling configuration, the Swedish facility takes advantage of the region's frigid winds. Excess ...
  June 13, 2013 - Engadget