Data Center Campus
Meta's data center campus in the Tietgenbyen business park in Odense, Denmark, whose server heat warms homes through Fjernvarme Fyn's district heating network. Meta cancelled two further buildings in 2022. First built in 2019, with expansions through 2023.
Meta's Odense campus sits in the Tietgenbyen business park in Odense SØ, on Funen, about 7 km east-southeast of central Odense. Cassin Networks ApS, a Meta subsidiary, holds the land and runs the campus. The main gate is on M.P. Allerups Vej.
Land. The original plot covers about 50 ha. In 2021 Odense Kommune adopted Lokalplan 4-1022 so Meta could add about 39 ha of adjoining land for two more data halls. Meta ended that project in December 2022.
Power. Energinet built a 150 kV switching station on the campus. It links to Energinet's Fraugde station and takes supply from both the eastern and western Danish grids. Meta owns the adjoining 150/20 kV transformer station, which has three transformers. Forty Caterpillar 3.2 MW diesel generators provide backup power.
Heat recovery. Meta designed the campus around heat recovery. Fjernvarme Fyn owns an ammonia heat-pump plant about 600 m away that lifts server heat to district-heating temperature. Meta supplies the heat free of charge: 165,000 MWh a year, enough for about 9,000 homes. Ramboll engineered the plant.
Renewables. Meta matches the campus load with wind power from two Norwegian wind farms (294 MW, Bjerkreim cluster) and 211 MW from three new solar projects in Denmark.
Milestones. Facebook confirmed the project in January 2017 and broke ground that year. The first buildings earned LEED Gold in 2020. In October 2020 Meta started a third building of nearly 30,000 m². In August 2022 Meta signed a DKK 2.4 billion civil-works contract with Per Aarsleff for two more buildings. It terminated the contract in December 2022, saying AI workloads need a different data center design. Earthworks, foundations, cable trenches and a 1,000-car car park were already in place. Meta puts its Odense investment at more than DKK 10 billion. The campus won the 2021 Green Data Centre of the Year award.
Buildings
| Site | Operator | Status | Operational | Building Size | Built |
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| South RidgeInterested in this information?Contact us | Meta |
Operational
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░░░░░ Request Dataset MW | ░░░░░░░ Request Dataset SqFt | 2019 |
| South ParkInterested in this information?Contact us | Meta |
Operational
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░░░░░ Request Dataset MW | ░░░░░░░ Request Dataset SqFt | 2019 |
| ParkInterested in this information?Contact us | Meta |
Operational
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░░░░░ Request Dataset MW | ░░░░░░░ Request Dataset SqFt | 2023 |
| Prime CampusInterested in this information?Contact us | Meta |
Withdrawn
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— | — | 2024 |
| RidgeInterested in this information?Contact us | Meta |
Withdrawn
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— | — | 2025 |
Founded in 2004, Facebook needs no introduction as the world's largest social network. All the status updates, family photos and videos add up and create a need for a massive amount of storage and compute. Facebook maintains a growing stable of data centers spread across the world.
December 13, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center
Meta, formerly known as Facebook, plans to expand its Odense data center campus in Denmark. Meta says it will be adding two buildings with a total space of 969,000 square feet (90,000 square meters). The addition will bring the total floor space at the facility to up to 2.1 million square meters...
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