<p>If you've ever bought a bookshelf or a chest of drawers or a bunk bed from Ikea, you know the trick. Somehow, the Swedish furniture maker stuffs your new chest of drawers into a handful of relatively small, thin boxes you can easily push into the back of your car. It ships furniture in pieces, packing all these parts in the tightest and neatest of ways.</p><p>Now, as it erects a new computer data center in Ikea's backyard, Facebook wants to do much the same thing. The social networking giant is building a second server farm in Lulea, Sweden, and in an effort to improve efficiency, it's shipping equipment to the facility in tightly packed boxes not unlike those you find in an Ikea warehouse.</p><p>Much as Ikea can streamline its operation and reduce prices with its approach, Facebook can more rapidly and efficiently build its data centers. It plans on using this method across the ever expanding network of computing centers that underpin its massively popular web service. "We expect this new approach to data center design will enable us to construct and deploy new capacity twice as fast as our previous approach," writes Facebook data center design engineer Marco Magarelli in a blog post, referring to this new Ikea-inspired shipping method and other new approaches in Lulea. "We also believe it will prove to be much more site-agnostic and will greatly reduce the amount of material used in the construction."</p><p>In an effort to improve efficiency, Facebook is shipping equipment to the facility in tightly packed boxes not unlike those you find in an Ikea warehouse</p><p><a href="http://www.wired.com/business/2014/03/what-ikea-taught-facebook/">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://venturebeat.com/2014/03/07/facebook-mimics-ikea-in-flat-packing-equipment-for-its-newest-data-center/">Facebook mimics Ikea in flat-packing equipment for its newest data center</a> (VentureBeat)</p><p><a href="http://www.itnews.com.au/News/374578,inside-facebooks-ikea-style-data-centre-build.aspx?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=editors_picks">Inside Facebook&#039;s &#039;IKEA-style&#039; data centre build</a> (iT News)</p><p><a href="http://www.slashgear.com/facebook-to-build-innovative-data-center-concept-in-lulea-sweden-08320027/">Facebook to build innovative Data Center Concept in Lulea, Sweden</a> (SlashGear)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dHQkno7N8E3iaLMmZpAG2wml4oirM&authuser=0&ned=us">8 additional articles.</a></p>