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Facebook announces construction of renewable energy data center in Nebraska
Facebook announced yesterday that it will be bringing a data center to Papillion, Nebraska. The 970,000 square foot campus will generate 1,000 construction jobs and 100 positions within the center once it is online. The announcement came from Nebraska Governer Pete Ricketts, Papillion Mayor David Black and a representative from Facebook. “Growing Silicon Prairie through…
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It’s live: Facebook’s first Altoona data center is now officially online
ALTOONA, IOWA—Driving east on I-80 toward Des Moines, its hard to miss the looming construction project that is Facebook’s Altoona, Iowa data center. With a 202 acre campus—that’s 42 acres bigger than Disneyland and 22 bigger than neighboring Adventureland—just one of its two buildings would be twice as tall as 801 Grand if you stood…
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Altoona’s Facebook data center announces Community Action Grants
ALTOONA, IOWA—Last week, the almost $300 million Facebook data center campus under construction in Altoona, Iowa, announced an initiative that would help spur further community growth and engagement in the area.
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Facebook announces plans for second building at Altoona data center
Almost exactly a year after the social media giant announced it would build a $299.5 million data center in Altoona, Iowa, Facebook announced it hopes to break ground on a second data center building on the campus soon, pending approval from the City of Altoona Planning and Zoning Board and Altoona City Council…
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Facebook, Microsoft data center plans move forward in central Iowa
It’s a big day for data center news in central Iowa. First, the Des Moines Register reported that construction on Altoona’s $300 million Facebook data center has sparked economic development and small business growth. Then the Register announced that the proposed West Des Moines data center…
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Help us curate Facebook interest lists for Silicon Prairie startups
In the spirit of the holidays and time spent with family, we’d like to stay in touch with our Silicon Prairie family, too. There’s hundreds of Silicon Prairie startups across the region and that makes it hard to keep up with what’s going on with each throughout the year. That’s where Facebook’s interest lists come…
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Facebook expects Iowa data center to use 100 percent renewable energy
In early 2015, when Facebook’s Altoona, Iowa-based data center starts servicing traffic, officials say the facility is expected to operate on 100 percent renewable energy. Through a partnership with Iowa wind project developer …
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As Facebook data center details emerge, Google grabs headlines, too
Data centers in Iowa are dominating headlines this week as Facebook on Monday announced its intention to build a facility in Altoona and the next day the State of Iowa revealed Google is expanding its existing project in Council Bluffs. The immediate costs of these two projects is expected to reach nearly $700 million, creating…
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Brad Dwyer breaks down Hatchlings 2 (Video)
With the recent retirement of Version 1 of Hatchlings, we turn our attention to Version 2 of the online social egg-gathering game. Brad Dwyer, the Panora, Iowa-based founder and CEO of Hatchlings, sat down with us at Big Omaha in May during beta testing for Version 2 to demo Hatchlings’ new user interface, which is…
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Elkhorn-based Fat Brain Toys wins $20K, trip to Facebook HQ
Fat Brain Toys, you’ve just been chosen from among 11,000 companies as one of five winners of the Big Break for Small Business contest. What are you going to do next? Why, they’re going to Facebook land, of course. Fat Brain, based in Elkhorn, Neb., was announced Monday as one of five winners of a…