Facebook yesterday formally announced the expansion of its Los Lunas data center site with two new buildings (buildings seven and eight) in an $800 million project. This is the first phase of its doubling of the data center site by six buildings over the next several years. Construction on the last two buildings (buildings five and six) of the initial project site are scheduled to be completed by 2023.
https://www.abqjournal.com/2441105/facebook-to-invest-800m-in-data-center-expansion.html
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Facebook will add two more buildings to its massive data center in Los Lunas, expanding its investment there by $800 million, the company announced Wednesday.
The California-based social media giant, which broke ground in fall 2016 on its local data center complex, had planned to construct six buildings at Huning Business Park near Interstate 25 and N.M. 6. Now, it will expand its 730-acre campus there to eight buildings, increasing its total investment from an estimated $1.2 billion previously to $2 billion going forward, the company said.
It will be another three or four years before the entire complex is fully operational. But three of the initial six buildings are already up and running, Facebook Construction Manager Charles Tomlin told reporters during a tour of the campus Wednesday morning. One half of the fourth building has also come online, with the other half expected to power up late next year. And construction is steadily advancing on the fifth and sixth facilities, which are scheduled for completion in 2023.
Now, with two more buildings in the works, Facebook expects to employ 400 permanent workers once the full campus is operational, up from 300 permanent employees it projected with six buildings. And the additional construction means extended employment for roughly 1,100 temporary workers.
“We’ve had about 1,100 construction workers steadily employed here since December 2016,” Tomlin said. “That’s five continuous years with that number of workers on site.”
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Here's a short drone flyover of the Los Lunas data center site from the Valencia County News-Bulletin on YouTube.
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Here is an image of the existing facility, a rendering of the expansion, and a rendering of the site with all eight announced data hall structures.
https://datacenters.fb.com/
https://www.facebook.com/LosLunasDataCenter/
Here's an image from a real estate listing nearby that outlines all the land that Facebook owns in Los Lunas, about 750 acres. At the upper left edge of the image is where the new Amazon facility looks to be beginning construction.
https://www.crexi.com/properties/557978/new-mexico---18-ac-prime-retail-mixed-use-development
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