Facebook Chooses Iowa For Next Data Center Location
The company will invest a minimum of $299.5 million in the project.
In a press release, Gov. Terry Branstad and Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds joined Altoona’s Mayor Skip Conkling in officially welcoming Facebook to Iowa. The social networking company, which helps more than 1 billion people around the world connect and share with each other, announced that it will build a new, state-of-the-art data center in Altoona.
“Today’s announcement further solidifies Iowa’s position as a destination for tech companies — from major data center operations like Facebook’s to the innovative start-ups we continue to see popping up around our state,” said Gov. Branstad. “Our productive workforce and our overall cost of doing business help us to win great projects like this.”