Facebook to build data center near Des Moines, Iowa
By Alexei Oreskovic SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc is building a data center near Des Moines, Iowa, to bolster its computing power as it rolls out new services and as the growing use of smartphones increase the pressure on its infrastructure. This facility in Altoona, Iowa, will be the social networking company’s fourth since 2010, when Facebook began construction on its first data center in Prineville, Oregon. Facebook would not disclose the cost of the new data center, but said it would be within the $1. 8 billion in capital expenditures that it projected for 2013 in January. . . .
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