Tom Furlong

  • It’s live: Facebook’s first Altoona data center is now officially online

    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…