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Facebook To Build $1 Billion Data Center In Virginia (cnn.com)
It's official: Facebook will be investing $1 billion in a new data center in Henrico County, which is just outside Richmond, Virginia. According to CNNMoney, Facebook is putting $750 million into construction and $250 million to multiple solar facilities that will power the data center. From the report: The investment is expected to create 100 full-time jobs. Facebook will receive about $19 million in state tax exemptions through 2035, according to the Virginia Economic Development Partnership.
Facebook already has data centers in Oregon, North Carolina and Iowa. Centers in Fort Worth, Texas; Los Lunas, New Mexico; and New Albany, Ohio are currently under construction. "One of the many important factors in our search for a new data center location is being able to source clean and renewable energy. We also look for great partnerships within the local community, robust infrastructure ... and a strong pool of local talent," Rachel Peterson, Facebook's director of data center strategy, said in a statement.
Go Virginia!!
Facebook is building a billion data centers for $1?
More Facebook, just what we don't need. One Billion Dollars for 100 people to work at? And folks wonder why the general public doesn't get Silicon Street.
CIA can save on interstate backhaul, probably run their own fibre straight to it.
I'd have thought they'd have tried to build next door to CIA HQ or the NSA, or even co-located.
Clean American Appalachian Coal, the future for America's energy needs!!
As in they're searching for a driver of a autonomous car.
The investment is expected to create 100 full-time jobs. Facebook will receive about $19 million in state tax exemptions through 2035
I'm somewhat shocked that Facebook didn't get a tax break that was an order of magnitude higher. If those numbers are correct, then my tax money is only paying $10,555 of each of those 100 salaries per year for the next 18 years. I would have expected to have been paying ten times that on $70K salaries. That seems more like the way these deals go. Of course with Fort Meade being only 90 miles away and Langley 60, the NSA and CIA are probably making up the difference.
Like its 09 again :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
The investment is expected to create 100 full-time jobs.
An insignificant number of jobs created will not even put a dent in the thousands of unemployed American tech workers or in the millions of unemployed Americans. Especially if all one hundred jobs are filled by H1Bs.
When I first saw the headline, I immediately thought to crack a joke: "Which city in India will be emptied to staff Facebook's new data center?" As it turns out, the joke is itself a joke. India wouldn't notice a hundred missing Indians.
OK assholes, which Slashdot techturd will brag about being the one-and-only American hired by Facebook to work in the new shithole?
Honestly, my first thought upon hearing this was that they built it near DC to make it easy for the spooks to get to the data.
Also, the short distance will make sending and receiving quantum communication that much better. Their AI's will be like roommates.
People think because I am an engineer that I just must love facebook or any social networking stuff. I'm not on any of it. Never even created an account to try it out. I'm often told I don't know what I'm missing. I get laid all the time and have a good social life. I have no idea why anyone needs this crap.
If you're on linkedin, you're a hypocrite.
If you're on github, you're a hypocrite.
If you're on any industry-specific social network, you're a hypocrite.
Get it straight, scumbag. You might not be on facebook specifically, but social networking is everywhere because of facebook.
^^ lies
You made some reasonable points, and then killed your post with this. (Disclaimer: I am face blind, and therefore cannot comment on the veracity of the above-quoted; still, that was a patently dickish way to destroy your own post.)
for only 100 jobs? What other infrastructure will need to be built out....water/sewer/roads? Bad investment?
so that's 190K/year per job. And that makes what kind of financial sense for Virginia?
Goooood! It is closer... and it will facilitate the merge with "locals". Goo booking faces, catalog everyone's exposed life. So dumb...
For NOT coming to Missouri. Last thing this state needs is Google bringing MORE moronic liberal socialist to this state!
BOTH U.S. senators for Virginia are democrats, and 40% of their U.S. reps are democrats. They put it in Virginia, most likely because it is close to DC.
Zuckerberg's an ugly little thieving jew wimp who despite stealing winklevoss' work for facebook can't fix his ugly face no matter how much stolen money he has.
"FAKEBOOK" IS bullshit (idiotic bs for morons that don't really have lives) & yes, there's a reason I call it that (read on, turned me RIGHT OFF to it once I saw how it can be misused).
* I mean, for shit's sake, what's it REALLY do for folks (other than stir up more 'drama' bullcrap)? I've never understood the 'fascination' that the "unwashed" non-technical masses SEE in that utter horseshit - hell, a HUGE percentage of its accounts are FAKE!
Let's put it this way - I have a few acquaintances who use it, & I've SEEN them create fake accounts to 'stalk' people (usually women, how low) by 'friending' them to see what they're up to etc.!
WTF!
Who the FUCK CARES? If a chick dumps you, let it f'ing go dumbasses!
What a fucking JOKE - seriously, & I've told them "Is THAT all your life is that you resort to such LAME & NEFARIOUS BULLSHIT? You're heading for T R O U B L E asswipes!"
Nothing good will come of it (in 1 case a guy I know named Mark got into shit for it)
APK
P.S.=> As to the scumbag who owns it? He's a swine who STOLE IT from the Winklevoss twins (they surprised his STUPID ASS - he thought he could just "roll over" them with money, I wonder if that dumb fuck realized they had money too!): That UGLY FUCK "suckerberg" would be better served getting heavy duty PLASTIC SURGERY TO FIX HIS UGLY FACE with that money instead, lol!
Additionally - those taxbreaks could be put to FAR better use than "fakebook" bullshit, unquestionably... apk
Wouldn't be surprised.