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Facebook first announced its plans to build a data center in Altoona in 2013. Since then, the company has invested nearly $1.5 billion to develop the campus and has increased its footprint to 2.5 million square feet of building space. The Altoona data center campus runs entirely on renewable power (wind).
The Facebook data center campus in Altoona has four buildings.
| Distance | Site | About |
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| 2.82 miles | Lightedge Des Moines 2 | |
| 2.83 miles | LightEdge Altoona |
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| 7.32 miles | Level3 Des Moines | |
| 7.86 miles | Consolidated Des Moines |
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| 8.02 miles | Connect DSM | |
| 9.37 miles | InfoBunker | |
| 14.43 miles | Microsoft Des Moines Project Alluvion |
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| 18.01 miles | OneNeck Des Moines |
Type Carrier neutral facility
Carriers CenturyLink, Enventis, Fiber Utilities, INS, Mediacom, NexGen, SageNet, Windstream
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| 18.34 miles | Microsoft Des Moines | |
| 18.42 miles | Microsoft Des Moines Project Osmium |
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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.
Sep 08, 2023 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | Facebook
The University of Minnesota (UoM) Board of Regents has authorized the $39.7 million land sale to Meta. The 280-acre tract of land in UMore Park has been sold to Jimnist LLC, a subsidiary of Meta, for a data center.The land that comprises UMore Park is located in Rosemount and is bordered by Co...
Sep 05, 2023 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | Facebook
Social network Meta is supporting a new Minneapolis data center project. Late last week, a Minnesota Public Utilities Commission document confirmed Meta's $700 million Minneapolis data center project. Xcel Energy announced an 'enterprise data center' project with a Fortune 100 company in Novem...
Jul 28, 2023 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | Facebook
In the last quarter, Meta's capital expenditures reached $6.4 billion due to investments in data centers, servers, and network infrastructure. This is a decrease from the $7.1 billion the company spent in the previous quarter, but the Facebook proprietor is now done with a data center restruct...
May 25, 2023 | Posted by MadalineDunn | Facebook
After announcing that it was canceling or pausing data center projects that were in mid-development last year, Meta has finally revealed some details on its AI-optimized data centers. The giant has shared that it is working on a custom chip "family" to bolster the efficiency of its data center...
May 24, 2023 | Posted by MadalineDunn | Facebook
rPlus Energies has announced that it has signed a 200MW power purchase agreement (PPA) with Idaho Power, which has a special energy services agreement with Meta; output from the project will go into the same grid supporting Meta's new Kuna data center. The Ada County, Idaho solar farm, known a...
