Facebook is adding two new buildings to its Altoona Data Center — one will store your old …

Melody Mercado, Des Moines Register Published 2:29 p.m. CT May 26, 2021 | Updated 2:37 p.m. CT May 26, 2021CLOSE Take a tour of Facebook’s Altoona data center WochitFacebook announced plans to expand its Altoona Data Center Wednesday morning, which will bring an additional $2 million annually to the city of Altoona.Construction on two new buildings has already begun, which will bring the total number of buildings on the campus to 10 and expand the campus’ footprint to 4.1 million square feet.”Our Altoona Data Center has already contributed millions of construction work hours to the Iowa economy and will ultimately result in a continuous project spanning more than a decade,” Matt Sexton, a spokesman at the Altoona Facebook location, said in a statement.The company first announced its plans to build a data center in Altoona in 2013. Since then, Facebook has invested approximately $2 billion to develop the site, which broke ground on its seventh and eighth data centers in May 2019.► Earlier this year: Altoona’s Facebook Data Center hands out more than $200,000 in annual grant programBuilding nine will be another data center building while building 10 will be constructed into what’s known as “cold storage,” according to Melanie Roe, a technology communications manager for Facebook.”Basically, it’s where…
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