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Facebook Revealed As Behind $1.5B "Catapult" Data Center In Iowa

Posted by timothy on from the not-the-drug-flinging-kind dept.

Earlier this month, an article raised the question of who owns the giant data center being built in Altoona, Iowa. Today, the Des Moines Register has an answer, gleaned from "legislative sources." The giant facility, estimated to cost $1.5 billion when construction is complete, is to house a data center for Facebook. The article lists various attributes the site has to make it attractive for all that data, including access to transportation, extensive network infrastructure, and relatively low risk from natural disasters.

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  1. Ok. This "host file" thing... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ok so I know this is off topic, and
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    block him using a hosts file, I've been hearing a lot about the benefits of that lately...