Facebook parent Meta to use all energy generated by Iowa wind farm to power Altoona data center
Facebook parent Meta will use the full output of a 225-megawatt wind farm project in central Iowa to help power its data center in Altoona, wind energy developer Apex Clean Energy said Monday.
Apex said Meta will buy all the energy generated by the Great Pathfinder wind farm in Boone and Hamilton counties to help support the growing facility. Meta announced in December that it will be the company's largest in the world globally upon completion in 2025 of a final expansion.
The project will bring the total floorspace of Meta's Altoona complex to more than 5 million square feet.
Great Pathfinder Wind is expected to begin commercial operations in 2022.
Meta, which first announced plans for the Altoona in 2013, has invested roughly $2.5 billion in the site, which employs about 400 people.