Meta Drops $10B+ on Massive Indiana Data Center Campus
Meta's building a 1-gigawatt data center in Lebanon, Indiana, with operations starting late 2027 or early 2028.
Meta just announced one of its biggest infrastructure bets yet. The company is pouring more than $10 billion into a new data center campus in Lebanon, Indiana.
The facility will pack a serious punch at 1 gigawatt of capacity. That's enough juice to power roughly 750,000 homes, for context.
The campus is expected to come online by late 2027 or early 2028. This places it among the largest data center investments in the industry.
The timing makes sense. Meta's been aggressively scaling its AI capabilities, and that requires massive computational infrastructure. Data centers of this magnitude don't get built on a whim.
Lebanon, Indiana probably wasn't on anyone's tech hub bingo card, but here we are. Rural America's becoming the backbone of Big Tech's AI ambitions.