Facebook's Altoona, Iowa data center is now live

Facebook’s fourth data center is now live. The Altoona, Iowa center opened today, with the next-generation architecture Facebook calls data fabric.

Brice Towns, site manager of the Altoona data center wrote about the opening in a blog post:

This is the fastest we’ve ever completed a first building at one of our sites, and we owe a lot of that to the people of Iowa. More than 950,000 hours have already been logged in the construction of the facility, and we have an average of 450 people — 80 percent of them from Central Iowa — here every day, constructing a