Meta, the parent company of Facebook, recently announced that it has broken ground on its newest data center: a state-of-the-art 1 gigawatt campus in Lebanon, Indiana.
The facility "represents an investment of over $10 billion in data center infrastructure and the surrounding community, one of our largest infrastructure investments to date," Meta said in a Feb. 11 post.
Meta said the new data center "is our second site in Indiana, and is designed to deliver 1GW of capacity once operational. As AI advances and compute demands continue to grow, gigawatt sites like this one will be critical to advancing the technology that supports our core business as well as our AI ambitions."
Building at this scale "creates the flexibility to support both goals while enabling technology with higher bandwidth, lower latency, and improved reliability," it said.
The data center will use a water-efficient closed-loop, liquid-cooled system that recirculates the same water and will use zero water for a majority of the year.
