Facebook Confirms Altoona Data Center

A day after an Iowa newspaper reported that Facebook's next data center would be built in that state, Facebook confirmed the plans. The data center in Altoona, Iowa (13 miles northeast of Des Moines) will be Facebook's fourth owned and operated data center, and the third in the U.S. Facebook Vice President of Infrastructure Jay Parikh described in a blog post why the company is building another data center.

A day after an Iowa newspaper reported that Facebook’s next data center would be built in that state, Facebook confirmed the plans. The data center in Altoona, Iowa (13 miles northeast of Des Moines) will be Facebook’s fourth owned and operated data center, and the third in the U.S. Facebook Vice President of Infrastructure Jay Parikh described in a blog post why the company is building another data center.

Facebook notes that that the 476,000-square foot Altoona center will feature the same Open Compute Project server designs and outdoor air cooling system as the other data centers, but this building will have evolutionary improvements to the design and architecture.

The groundbreaking is scheduled for this summer and the data center is expected to be operational in 2014.

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