Facebook stole Lulea designs, claims British firm

Digital Marketing Agency, British modular data center maker BladeRoom Group (BRG) has filed a lawsuit against Facebook in a US court accusing the online giant of stealing its designs to build its Lulea data center and then share those designs with the industry through the Open Compute Project. 

As regards the lawsuit, both BladeRoom and Facebook have refused to make public statements as yet; however, BladeRoom staff have confirmed the firm is in litigation with Facebook. 

The lawsuit says: “Facebook’s misdeeds might never have come to light had it decided that simply stealing BRG’s intellectual property was enough. Instead, Facebook went further when it decided to encourage and induce others to use BRG’s intellectual property through an initiative created by Facebook called the ‘Open Compute Project’.”