Meta Altoona Data Center
Operating · Meta · 100 Share Way, Altoona, IA
Meta's Altoona Data Center is a campus at 100 Share Way in Altoona, Iowa, where construction began in 2013. Meta's seventh expansion, announced in 2021, was expected to bring it past 5 million sq ft by 2025, and more than 400 people work in operations there. The campus represents more than $2.5 billion of investment. MidAmerican Energy serves it. Iowa DNR permits it under the owner name Siculus, Inc. (Title V 18-TV-007R1), with 3,000 kW diesel emergency generators.
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Overview
- Campus power
- Not disclosed
- No exact-site MW figure in cited sources.
- Status
- Operating
- Operating campus
- IT floor area
- Not disclosed
- Campus
- Project cost
- $2.5B
- Estimated construction cost in the cited project filing.
- Compute profile
- Hyperscale
- Project scope
Power and grid
Facility and development
- Construction
- Ground broken in 2013; expansions announced in 2019 and twice in 2021, with build-out expected to finish in 2025 at more than 5 million sq ft.
- Land transaction
- In August 2019 Meta, as Siculus Inc., bought 18.2 acres north of the campus at NE 56th Street and NE 62nd Avenue.
- Facility class
- Hyperscale
- Air permits
- Iowa DNR Title V Operating Permit 18-TV-007R1 (Siculus, Inc.), expires April 7, 2029