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Read Meta Expanding Its $800m Mesa Campus in Arizona
Meta Expanding Its $800m Mesa Campus in Arizona

Meta Expanding Its $800m Mesa Campus in Arizona

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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Read Meta to expand at DeKalb data center campus and announces new sustainability projects
Meta to expand at DeKalb data center campus and announces new sustainability projects

Meta to expand at DeKalb data center campus and announces new sustainability projects

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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Read Meta signs another solar PPA with EDPR
Meta signs another solar PPA with EDPR

Meta signs another solar PPA with EDPR

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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Read Meta signs another PPA in Oklahoma
Meta signs another PPA in Oklahoma

Meta signs another PPA in Oklahoma

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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Read Meta To Develop $800m Data Center in Temple, Texas
Meta To Develop $800m Data Center in Temple, Texas

Meta To Develop $800m Data Center in Temple, Texas

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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Read Meta Puts The Zeewolde Data Center Development on Hold Due To Political Opposition
Meta Puts The Zeewolde Data Center Development on Hold Due To Political Opposition

Meta Puts The Zeewolde Data Center Development on Hold Due To Political Opposition

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

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

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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Read Meta confirms data center Missouri plans
Meta confirms data center Missouri plans

Meta confirms data center Missouri plans

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

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

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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Read Another racist incident recorded at Facebook's Utah data center
Another racist incident recorded at Facebook's Utah data center

Another racist incident recorded at Facebook's Utah data center

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

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

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

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

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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Read Meta/Facebook is Project Velvet's First Tenant
Meta/Facebook is Project Velvet's First Tenant

Meta/Facebook is Project Velvet's First Tenant

March 11, 2022 Meta

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 feet)...

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

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

February 04, 2022 Meta

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 invested...

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Read Meta signs wind PPA in Iowa
Meta signs wind PPA in Iowa

Meta signs wind PPA in Iowa

January 26, 2022 Meta

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, as...

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Read Facebook's DeKalb data center in first stage of construction
Facebook's DeKalb data center in first stage of construction

Facebook's DeKalb data center in first stage of construction

January 18, 2022 Meta

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...

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Read Facebook plans massive $29-34 billion CAPEX
Facebook plans massive $29-34 billion CAPEX

Facebook plans massive $29-34 billion CAPEX

November 05, 2021 Meta

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,...

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Read Facebook is rebranding as Meta
Facebook is rebranding as Meta

Facebook is rebranding as Meta

October 29, 2021 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...

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Read Facebook acquires land in Denmark for potential data center development
Facebook acquires land in Denmark for potential data center development

Facebook acquires land in Denmark for potential data center development

October 13, 2021 Meta

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...

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Read What can the data center industry learn from the Facebook blackout?
What can the data center industry learn from the Facebook blackout?

What can the data center industry learn from the Facebook blackout?

October 07, 2021 Meta

Social media services Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram recently experienced a six-hour blackout, where users were unable to login, message, and peruse the platforms. But, users weren't the only ones whose access to the platform was interrupted. According to reports, tech giant Facebook also lost...

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