Meta, formerly known as Facebook, initiated construction on its Forest City campus in 2010, with the first data center coming online in 2012. The site has since grown to encompass three data centers, covering a combined area of 1.3 million square feet.
Over the past 14 years, Meta has invested more than $750 million in the Forest City data center campus. In terms of resource consumption, the Forest City data centers consume 492,786 MWh of electricity annually and withdraw 16.6 million gallons (62.9 million liters) of water per year.
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The 3rd building on the campus was a capital investment in excess of $200 million for the construction of a new 480,000 SF data center facility on the existing campus
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This data center is a part of Meta's Forest City Campus.
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The 65-acre Charlotte facility in the US is set to launch in Q1 2026 and will host Nvidia GB200 GPUs.
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Campus exterior and data hall photography for this operator.
Campus exterior and data hall photography for this operator.
Campus exterior and data hall photography for this operator.
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.
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