Meta launches data center in DeKalb, Illinois
Three years in the making
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Meta’s CapEx drops almost $3bn during data center construction pause
Company expects higher CapEx next year as construction resumes with new AI design
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Amitié subsea cable is ready for operations
Cable connects France and the US
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Meta resumes construction of Texas and Idaho data centers with new AI design
The first data centers with the new design
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Open Compute partner Jtec offers cart able to move full data center racks
Speculations abound that the server cart is already in use by Meta
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DC Blox opens Myrtle Beach cable landing station in South Carolina
Google and Meta to land cables at new facility
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Meta signs two solar PPAs in Ireland
Social media firm to offtake from solar farms in Meath and Wexford
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Dutch gov't removes zoning permission for Zeewolde land earmarked for Meta data center
Meta had already given up, new decision prevents anyone else with similar plans
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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to build 1,000+ GPU cluster for biomedical AI research
Plans to build large language models for predicting human cells
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University of Minnesota approves $40m land sale to Meta for data center
Facebook parent company could invest $700 million in the area
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Meta confirms it is behind $700 million Minnesota data center project
Company buying 280 acres outside Minneapolis
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Australian ISP Move Up Internet to launch Meta-developed Terragraph gigabit technology
Will use Meta's Terragraph network
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Meta begins paying underpaid Irish data center electricity bill after ESB Networks error
Meta raised concerns after paying too little
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Meta capex hits $6.4bn on data center, servers, and network spend; costs expected to grow
As delayed facilities start to ramp up
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Aqua Comms, Meta, Microsoft, and Vodafone complete trans-Atlantic Amitié cable
Links UK and France with the US
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Meta report shows the company causes far more emissions than it can cover with renewable energy
Company has grown much faster than it can decarbonize
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AMD announces hyperscaler-focused Epyc 97X4 processor, featuring 128 Zen 4c cores
Shrinks core area to up core count
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Former Meta CTO launches ocean carbon-capture project
Additional Ventures' Carbon to Sea initiative aims to boost ocean alkalinity
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Instagram goes down in global outage
Meta's app takes a nap
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DC Blox confirms Meta’s Anjana cable will land at Myrtle Beach landing station in South Carolina
Facility confirms second cable to land in new facility
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Meta begins third round of layoffs
Currently set to be the last round of cuts
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rPlus Energies signs 200MW PPA with Idaho Power for Meta’s Kuna data center
‘Pleasant Valley Solar’ will be largest solar facility in Idaho Power’s system
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ESB error led to Meta's Irish data center getting free electricity, may have happened elsewhere
No one tell the Bitcoin miners
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Meta spends $7.1bn on data centers, servers, and office capex in Q1, still assessing "data center restructuring initiative"
Expects to spend big on generative AI
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Meta's data center redesign due to it scrapping AI chip rollout, turning to Nvidia GPUs
Company hires Microsoft exec to lead new AI chip efforts
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Mushrooms eat building waste at Meta's Gallatin data center
Meta tests using fungi to break down drywall waste, and make it useful
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2Africa cable lands at Port Said, Egypt
The second cable to land at the mouth of the Suez Canal
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Oregon data center energy bill fails, Idaho limits data center tax breaks
Amazon wins, Meta loses