November 15, 2022 Meta
Meta, the owner of Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram, has announced the biggest job cuts in the giant's history, with 13% of its workforce set to lose their jobs in a move that follows big redundancies at Twitter, Oracle and Microsoft. According to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the job cuts are "the most...
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November 07, 2022 Meta
Meta (formerly Facebook) has announced that in an effort reduce its water consumption to become water-positive, it has increased its server rooms' temperature by five degrees to 90°F (32.2°C). This was first announced at the 7×24 Exchange Fall Conference, and first implemented at one data center,...
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October 31, 2022 Meta
Since Facebook became Meta, the company has tanked, losing $650 billion. In the wake of this huge loss, on Thursday, the giant's shares crashed 24% to $97.94, which is reportedly the lowest in nearly four years. This follows its historic loss in market value back in February, which saw...
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October 04, 2022 Meta
Social media giant Meta has announced that it is expanding its footprint in Eagle Mountain, Utah, with the expansion of its data center campus. The company made this announcement of the new additions on Facebook, where it said the campus grow by 2 million square feet. Meta's Eagle Mountain campus...
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September 23, 2022 Meta
Meta’s Sarpy County data center has once again found itself in the headlines following another racist incident on site. The primary contractor Turner Construction had shut down work on the Utah site regarding three other racist incidents, which included racist graffiti on a portable toilet and a...
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August 02, 2022 Meta
Meta has announced that it will expand its Sarpy data center in Sarpy County, Nebraska, once again, with the introduction of a new building which will make it a nine-building, four million-square-foot (371,600 sqm) campus that will be fuelled with renewable energy sourced by wind farm projects in...
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June 13, 2022 Denmark
Telenor and Telia have teamed up with Better Energy in Denmark to sign a PPA, which will lead to the development of a new solar park. Together the telcos will be able to access 125GWh of green energy per year over the next 10 years. According to reports, the park's energy production will be...
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June 10, 2022 Meta
Meta has announced that it will be expanding its Gallatin data center campus, which is located in Tennessee. The plans for the campus, which will see an injection of $1B, were first announced back in 2020, and the campus will be powered in part by solar energy from a 110MW power purchase...
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May 05, 2022 Meta
Meta has announced that it is expanding its Mesa data center campus in Arizona. The company announced in a Facebook post that: “In August 2021, we were thrilled to add Mesa, Arizona, to our family of data centers. Just nine months later, we’re excited to announce that we are expanding the Meta...
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May 03, 2022 Meta
Meta has announced further expansion with an injection of over $1 billion into three new data centers at its cloud campus in DeKalb, Illinois. The data center will span nearly 2.4 million-square-foot. Speaking about the decision to expand its presence at the cloud campus, Darcy Nothnagle,...
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April 21, 2022 Meta
Meta has partnered up with EDP Renewables, it has announced. The energy company will supply solar energy in Texas via a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA). The social media giant, will gain access to 156MW, procured from the 240MW Cattlemen Solar Park in Milam County, which EDP Renewables North...
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April 08, 2022 Meta
Meta has recently signed another power purchase agreement (PPA) with TransAlta Corporation. Through this deal, Meta will be provided with 200MW from the upcoming Horizon Hill Wind Power Project, which is to be based in Oklahoma. Construction on the project, which will be located on 25,000 acres,...
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April 01, 2022 Meta
Meta is going to develop a data center in Temple, Texas. The social media giant plans to develop the new facility on a 393-acre site located off Industrial Blvd. and NW H K Dodgen Loop. When completed, the new data center will have up to 83,600 square meters (900,000 square feet) of space. Work...
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March 31, 2022 Meta
Meta has finally announced that it is pausing its plans for a mega data center in the Netherlands. The company said it would not be going forward with its plans for the facility in Zeewolde until further notice. Facebook gained approval for the facility from the Zeewolde council. However, it...
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March 30, 2022 Meta
Construction on the solar farm that will supply Meta's Gallatin data centers with renewable energy is underway; it has been announced. Based in Madison County, Tennessee, the farm will see an investment of upwards of $90 million, which will be funded, owned, operated, and maintained by...
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March 28, 2022 Meta
Meta has confirmed that it will indeed be a tenant at the Golden Plains Technology Park and intends to build a data center at the location in Kansas City, Missouri. The giant said that construction on the facility has begun, and that it expects it to be operational in 2024. According to reports,...
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March 25, 2022 Meta
Meta has confirmed that it would be developing a data center in Kansas City. The Kansas City Area Development Council announced that the social media giant has chosen Kansas for its next data center development. Meta will be starting work at the site soon and the data center is scheduled to be in...
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March 24, 2022 Meta
Further controversy ensues at the construction site of Meta's data center in Eagle Mountain, Utah, with the discovery of a noose. This is not the first time racist activity has been found to be occurring on the site. Back in November, racist graffiti was written across the site's toilets....
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March 18, 2022 Meta
As Meta gets underway with its Metaverse plans, it has announced that it will be investing $1 billion in a new data center campus in Castilla La Mancha in the Toledo region of Spain, which will form the basis of the project. The facility will reportedly be built on a 191-hectare parcel of land....
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March 14, 2022 Meta
Meta is developing a €1 billion ($1.1bn) data center campus in Spain. The social media giant says the facility will be developed near Talavera de la Reina, in the Toledo region. Emiliano Garcia-Page, the socialist president of Toledo, was happy about the development and said the project would...
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