With a focus on China

$1bn across three buildings

The long-rumored hyperscale project in Gallatin is Facebook’s 17th server farm

The $1 billion data center project in Virginia comes on stream

The FBI and DOJ are assisting with the investigation

The campus is halfway to completion

In what appears to be a hate crime

As the US coronavirus death toll passes 100,000

As part of growing US efforts to curtail the free web

Facebook is doing business under the name of Woolhawk LLC

The company also has a permit to build a smaller data center in the area

They tried to hide that they were behind it

The results of taxation, or rather, the lack of it

107MW coming online in 2021

Emerson already paid $30m in damages, after a jury agreed that the company used stolen designs to build a Facebook data center

Customers at the colocation site are exempt from all sales and use tax until 2029

The company is the sole investor in the project and will share the farm's energy output with Shell Energy

The facility is expected to start generating electricity in 2020

But will take local tax breaks

With zero property taxes

The deal will provide Facebook with six new solar farms to power its data centers and gives Dominion a chance to boost its renewable energy portfolio

If completed the project would be the company's fifth data center in Altoona

Laws could be put in place to protect a future walking path, hindering data center development in the area

The Linux based OS will be available pre-installed on Facebook's network hardware