Facebook's new Altoona, Iowa-based data center is up and running, about 18 months after breaking ground.
Site manager Brice Towns said in a blog post that the construction was the "fastest we've ever completed a first building at one of our sites."
"As you may have heard, we like to move fast at Facebook—and we are grateful to everyone who's helped us to get to this point," Towns said. "We're proud to call you our neighbors and our friends, and to be a part of the community here in Altoona."
The social network in April 2013 confirmed plans for the massive facility—Facebook's fourth owned-and-operated data center, and its third in the U.S. The three others are located in Prineville, Ore.; Forest City, N.C.; and Lulea, Sweden. What Towns called "one of the most advanced, efficient, and sustainable data centers on the planet," the Altoona building is powered by 100 percent renewable energy, provided in collaboration with MidAmerican Energy.
Cooled by 100 percent outside air, the 476,000-square-foot building also features hyper-efficient Open Computer Project gear and a new networking fabric that makes more future scaling more efficient as more folks log onto the site globally.
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