Meta's data center in Temple, Texas, is now serving traffic.
The company revealed yesterday, July 22, that the site had officially commenced operations, more than four years after plans for the site were first shared.
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Located on 393 acres of land off NW H K Dodgen Loop and Industrial Blvd., the data center was planned to span approximately 900,000 square feet (83,600 sqm) when completed, with construction beginning in Spring of 2022.
However, by December 2022, construction had been paused at the site as the company began redesigning its data centers for artificial intelligence workloads. Works resumed in October 2023. In a LinkedIn post, Meta's VP of data center development and strategy, Gary Demasi, noted that the facility is the first to go live with Meta's new AI-optimized data center design.
