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Work begins on solar farm that will power Meta's Tennessee campus

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 Nashv...

March 30, 2022

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Meta confirms data center Missouri plans

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 report...

March 28, 2022

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The Netherlands' Senate Votes To Prevent Meta From Advancing Works at its Zeewolde Data Center Site

Meta’s Plans for a data center in Zeewolde has suffered another major setback. Lawmakers in the Netherlands voted last week to prevent the company from continuing any groundwork on the site. This move comes after Meta received approval from the Zeewolde council for zoning changes and plans for...

March 28, 2022

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Meta Confirms Development of $800m Data Center in Kansas City

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...

March 25, 2022

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Another racist incident recorded at Facebook's Utah data center

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.Contr...

March 24, 2022

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Housing Minister Opposing Meta's Zeewolde Data Center Development

Meta’s data center proposal in Zeewolde, the Netherlands, appears to have hit another roadblock. The current Minister of Housing of the Netherlands, Hugo de Jonge, has revealed that he plans to prevent the development of the facility. Although the Zeewolde council has approved the zoning chang...

March 21, 2022

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Facebook's Meta to build $1 billion facility for the Metaverse

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...

March 18, 2022

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Meta To Develop a €1bn Data Center in Toledo, Spain

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 wou...

March 14, 2022

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Meta/Facebook is Project Velvet's First Tenant

According to Biz Journal, Meta will be the first tenant at the new large data center campus in Kansas, Missouri. Plans for a Golden Plains Technology Park, also known as Project Velvet, were first submitted in 2021. The developer has plans for a 510,000 square meters (5.5 million square fee...

March 11, 2022

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Meta's Q4 2021 Capex Stands at $5.5bn- Also Loses $200b in Valuation

Meta, formerly known as Facebook, has released its Q4 2021 financial reports. The report shows that the social media giant has spent $5.5 billion on capital expenditure in Q4 2021. The investment was in servers, office facilities, data centers, and network infrastructure. The company has inves...

February 04, 2022

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Meta signs wind PPA in Iowa

In its latest move towards attaining more green credentials, Meta has announced the signing of a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Apex for its 225-MW Great Pathfinder Wind project in Iowa. This is the energy company’s fifth deal with the social media giant. According to CEO Mark Zuckerberg,...

January 26, 2022

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Facebook's DeKalb data center in first stage of construction

Facebook’s data center in DeKalb located east of Route 23 and south of Gurler Road, has almost reached its first phase of completion, while the second phase of construction has been approved. According to reports, an initial investment of $800 million has been made, a figure that is likely to ...

January 18, 2022

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Keppel DC REIT Completes Acquisition Of Second Data Center In London

Keppel DC REIT has completed the acquisition of its second data center in London, UK. The Singaporean firm revealed that it acquired the data center in Bracknell for £57 million (S$105.5m/US$76.9m). The data center sits on a 4.7-acre property with three inter-linked two-story buildings. The da...

January 10, 2022

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The Netherlands’ climate goals at risk with new Facebook data center?

Controversy is looming around Facebook's new data center in the Netherlands. Critics of the facility argue that Meta's 166-hectare complex at Zeewolde will undermine the country's sustainability targets.This is because the data center is predicted to use around 1,380GWh hours of energy a year....

January 06, 2022

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Keppel Data Centres' green hydrogen supply chain feasibility study

Keppel Data Centres has announced it has teamed up with Woodside, Japan's Osaka Gas business division in Singapore, City Energy and City-OG Gas Energy Services, with the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU), to study the feasibility of a liquid hydrogen supply chain from Western Aust...

December 24, 2021

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Meta/Facebook got permission to develop Netherlands' largest data center in Zeewolde

Meta has been granted permission to build the Netherlands’ largest data center for its Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp applications in the small town of Zeewolde. Reports have it that the facility will use 200MW of electrical power and have five data center halls. The town council had a meet...

December 17, 2021

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Meta (Facebook) confirms it's behind the 200MW data center in Zeewolde

Meta, formerly known as Facebook, has confirmed that it is behind the development of the proposed 200MW data center in Zeewolde, the Netherlands. According to specifications, the facility could cover five data halls and have up to 200MW of capacity upon full buildout. However, the Zeewolde cit...

November 26, 2021

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Facebook plans massive $29-34 billion CAPEX

Facebook says it plans to spend between $29 billion and $34 billion on capital investments in 2022. This is an increase from the social media giant’s $19 billion spend this year. Chief Financial Officer at Facebook, David Wehner, says the rise in expenditure was due to investments in servers, ...

November 05, 2021

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Facebook is rebranding as Meta

Social Media and advertising giant Facebook have rebranded its company name as ‘Meta.’ The company’s top social media website will retain its name as Facebook. Its subsidiaries Instagram and WhatsApp will also keep their names. The company revealed that it would start trading under the stock t...

October 29, 2021

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Facebook acquires land in Denmark for potential data center development

Facebook has acquired 212 hectares of land in Andrup in Esbjerg, Denmark, for DKK 277 million ($43 million). The Esbjerg municipal announced that Facebook could start planning and surveying the land for building a data center in the future. Mayor Jesper Frost Rasmussen of Esbjerg municipal was...

October 13, 2021

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