Meta’s data centres in Temple, Texas, and Kuna, Idaho, have resumed construction. The Facebook corporation halted work at Temple in December 2022, as part of a global halt in data centre projects, as first reported by DCD. Meta redesigned its main data centre design over the following year to allow denser GPU installations for artificial intelligence applications. These are going to be the first facilities built using the new design.
“Meta is accelerating work on the Temple Data Centre!”. This will be one of the first data centres created utilising our new architecture, a design that will support the next generation of AI systems. It will be part of the infrastructure that will bring our innovations to life, according to the business.
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The construction of the “data centre will represent an investment of more than $800 million. Further, they will support approximately 100 operational jobs,” according to the report.
It will continue to collaborate on the project with JE Dunn Construction. Local contractors Rosendin, Brandt Companies, and Peabody General Contractors. Additionally, Alamo Structural Steel, Perry and Perry Builders, CentiMark Corporation, and BakerTriangle, with over 1,200 construction workers on-site at the peak of construction.
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Similarly, it anticipates a $800 million investment in Kuna, as well as 100 operational employment. It will continue to collaborate with HENSEL PHELPS, Engineered Structures, Inc. (ESI), and other local partners, with a peak of 1,000 construction employment anticipated. Meta claims that the new design will be 31% less expensive. It will also take half the time to develop than the prior method.
“We’ve now gone to market with our design, and the sort of response we’ve gotten back has given us confidence that our projections are coming to fruition,” Alan Duong, Meta’s worldwide director of data centre engineering, told DCD for a profile on Meta’s new data centre design.
