SPRINGFIELD, Neb. (AP) - Facebook is again expanding a data center it is building in the Omaha suburbs.
The social media giant said Wednesday that it will spend an additional $400 million to add another 1 million square feet to the data center that is under construction southwest of Omaha in Sarpy County. The company estimates that it will spend nearly $1.5 billion total on the project that will now expand from Papillion into Springfield and include 3.6 million square feet.
When the project is completed sometime in 2024, Facebook said the data center will employ roughly 300 people. The first four of eight planned buildings at the site are already completed and operational.
Originally, Facebook said in 2017 that it planned to build a 1 million-square-foot data center in Papillion but it later announced plans to expand the site to 2.6 million square feet. Facebook said its data center will be entirely powered by renewable energy, including a major wind farm in northeast Nebraska.
The area near the Facebook data center already includes a Google data center that is also under construction and data centers for Yahoo, Travelers Insurance, Fidelity Investments and LightEdge Solutions. Google also has two other data centers a few miles away in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
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