Facebook investment in New Mexico data center tops $1B
November 15, 2017
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Facebook is going much bigger with an under-construction data center in New Mexico, announcing plans Tuesday to build another four buildings and boost its total investment to more than $1 billion.
Gov. Susana Martinez joined company officials to announce the expansion plans in Los Lunas, a rural area just outside of Albuquerque. She said the data center campus will include a total of six buildings covering nearly 2.8 million square feet (260,000 square meters) of what was once a barren plot of desert.
She said during a news conference that successful companies like Fac...
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