The socialist president of the region, Emiliano García-Page, welcomed the project, declaring it was a project of "regional interest" that would benefit the area. The data center is planned to be built on the Torrehierro Polygon Industrial Estate at Talavera, which is 115 km from Madrid in the central autonomous regoin of Castille La Mancha.
The project should be built by 2023, but is not expected to be fully operational for six years after that.
A year in negotiation "It's not just any initiative," Garcia-Page told Spanish news service ABC , saying the project had taken one year of intense quiet negotiation to set up, working with a Facebook-owned company called Global Villacreces. The proposal would buy two million square meters of land in the Polígono de Torrehierro, currently owned by the public sector land management body, Sepes, and "in one fell swoop" make use of all the vacant industrial land in Talavera, said Garcia-Page.
The project will provide 1,000 jobs during construction followed by 250 full-time posts in operation, said Garcia-Page. He announced the project would have a formal Declaration of Regional Interest today, and called for all political parties, the business sector, and unions to support it.
The Councilor for Urban Planning of Talavera de la Reina, José Antonio Carrillo, called the project "a colossal project for Spain and internationally."
The announcement comes as Facebook's other European effort, a bid to build a 200MW campus in the village of Zeewolde , the Netherlands, is in limbo. Although the Zeewolde proposal is exempt from a nationwide ban on new hyperscale projects , announced in February, the project was already stymied, because the Dutch Senate has blocked the sale of some government land.
The campus would join Facebook's existing European data centers in Sweden, Denmark, and Ireland, said Carrillo, giving the region a privileged place on the communications map in Europe and throughout the world. The social media firm has also bought land in the Esbjer region of Denmark with a view to potentially build a facility.
According to the detailed plans lodged at Castilla La Mancha , the campus would be located on a 191-hectare piece of land 12 km west of Talavera de la Reina, next to the existing industrial development, Torrehierro Phase 1. The land is classified as "unconsolidated urban land and suitable for industrial use".
The city of Talavera aims to be a "technology city", and companies including Red Hat, Palo Alto Networks, Oracle, HPE, Telefónica, Esri, AWS, and IBM are located there. Telefónica, along with Nokia and Ericsson, has been testing 5G networks in the city, and in 2021, Talavera became the Spanish headquarters of the Gaia-X European cloud initiative...
Meta expanding Mesa, Arizona data center campus with three new buildings Social network continuing expansion spree
May 05, 2022 By Dan Swinhoe Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, is expanding its Mesa data center campus in Arizona.
“In August 2021, we were thrilled to add Mesa, Arizona, to our family of data centers. Just nine months later, we’re excited to announce that we are expanding the Meta Mesa Data Center campus with three new buildings, reaching more than 2.5 million square feet,” the company said in a Facebook post this week.
– Meta
Meta first announced and broke ground on the $800 million Mesa campus in August 2021 , with phase one of the 396-acre site comprising two buildings spanning 970,000 sq ft (90,000 sqm). Facebook negotiated planning permission for the data center under the pseudonym Redale LLC.
The first building of the project is expected to be delivered in 2023 and the entire project will be finished in 2026.
The social media firm said the news raises its investment in Arizona to more than $1 billion. To power the facility, Meta said it is working to bring 450MW of new solar energy to Arizona, and has partnered with Salt River Project to find three new projects in Pinal County.
“Mesa has been an exceptional home for Meta, thanks to its excellent access to infrastructure, strong pool of talent, access to new renewable energy resources and great set of community partners, and we’re excited to be expanding our presence here,” said David Williams, community development manager for Meta. “Today’s expansion announcement, together with our donation to the Mesa College Promise program, further underscore our commitment to Mesa.
During the planning phase , before Facebook was revealed as the applicant , critics like Mesa Vice Mayor Jenn Duff pointed to the huge water use of the data center, in a region with increasingly low supplies. In this week’s post, Meta said that it has partnered with local environmental non-profits to restore approximately 200 million gallons of water per year in the Colorado River and Salt River basins, and has restored over 25 million gallons of water in Arizona to date. “Meta’s decision to locate and grow in Mesa brings hundreds of job opportunities and a significant financial investment to our city,” said Mesa Mayor John Giles. After a large expansion spree in 2021 , 2022 has seen Meta announce plans to expand its Gallatin data center campus in Tennessee, its DeKalb data center campus in Illinois, and its New Albany campus in Ohio. The company has also announced new US data center sites in 
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