Facebook Altoona Iowa
Located in Des MoinesPhase 1: 476,000 square-foot, $300 million building built in 2014
Phase 2: 468,000 square feet
Phase 3: 496,000 square feet
Phase 4: The fourth building will be a 'cold storage' facility. SqFt TBD.
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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Phase 1: 476,000 square-foot, $300 million building built in 2014
Phase 2: 468,000 square feet
Phase 3: 496,000 square feet
Phase 4: The fourth building will be a 'cold storage' facility. SqFt TBD.
The Forest City location consists of two buildings with 370,000 sqft each.
When completed, the Fort Worth site will be Facebook’s largest data center to date, four buildings connected to form two “H” shapes, plus one standalone center, for a total of 20 data hall
Luleå is a small coastal town just south of the Arctic Circle. The facility opened in 2013 and was Facebook's first data center outside the U.S.
Facebook data center campus in the White Oak Technology Park will use solar power and 100 percent renewable energy.
In 2010, Prineville was selected to house Facebook's first data center. Now plans are in place for 7 data centers on the campus with up to 3.2 million square feet.
Facebook announced the planned construction of two data centers in Los Lunas. While still under construction, Facebook announced an additional four buildings to be constructed. The siz buildings will total 2.8 million sqft.
Facebook broke ground on the Clonee data centre in 2016 and the first building became operational in December 2017. The centre is built on a 250-acre site that was formerly two farms adjoining the headquarters of the Kepak meat business.
In August 2017, Facebook announced plans to build its first data center in the state in New Albany. The 970,000-square-foot facility is being constructed on 345 acres in the business park on the east side of Beech Road and south of the state Route 161 interchange.
The Facebook datacenter will be a 970,000 square foot building, located in northern Utah County, at the Sweetwater Industrial Park in Eagle Mountain, Utah.
The original plan called for 900,000 sqft data center space and a 70,000 office space. Facebook has since announced an expansion that will bring the complex to 2.6 million square feet. The first data center comes online in 2020.
Facebook's $750 million datacenter project in Huntsville was previously known by the codename “Starbelt.” The data center will be located in the North Huntsville Industrial Park and was expected to launch in 2020, but was delayed until late 2021.
Facebook's data center in Social Circle just East of Atlanta was ready in 2020. It will be powered by 100 percent clean and renewable energy and cooled using outside air.
Facebook initially built two data center buildings that are 270,000 sqft each. The first building was completed in 2020.
In May 2020, Facebook acquired land to build a 970,000 sqft data center in Gallatin, TN
Meta had to cancel plans for its new Zeewolde data centre, after extensive pushback from the region’s local authorities.
The Meta site will total approximately 900,000 square feet (83,600 sqm) when completed. Construction will began in Spring 2022
Proposed 5 building campus in El Paso. Construction timeline has not been announced.
Name | Date Added | Description |
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facebook_data_centers_2018 | March 2018 |
RTI International analyzed Facebook’s domestic data center fleet, focusing on how their construction and operation are impacting the economy, the environment, and communities. (2018) |
sustainability_report_2019 | July 2020 |
Facebook's Sustainability Report for 2019 which looks at the company's progress in 2019 and their plan to reduce their carbon footprint going forward. |
facebook-us-renewable-energy-impact-study-2021 | May 2021 |
A study by RTI International that examines renewal energy impacts by Facebook. The study was published in May 2021. |