Facebook intends to create a billion-dollar data center

Company intends to Facebook that you create a new data center in the town of Altona - Loa in the United States, and thus cost reached a billion U.S. dollars, the project, which recently increased chatter around him that he would be "the most technically advanced in the world."

According to a blog Des Moines Registry, Des Moines Register, citing sources in the state legislature that will be set up data center a huge will be called "Slingshot"

Catapult in two phases, will cost one of them nearly $ 500 million, and is expected to reach the total cost to $ 1.5 billion, to be an area covering up to 1.4 million square feet.

Osubht data centers symbol of the social and political implications that require many new constructions which are used infrastructure with new technologies.

The social network has two other data centers in Lulea - Sweden, Forest City - North Carolina, and in spite of that, there is no comment from the authorities in Altona or from Facebook on this subject to date.