Meta has opened its $1 billion data center in DeKalb, Illinois, boosting both the local economy and social media content-sharing capacity.
The data center is Meta's 12th facility in the U.S. and 15th worldwide, connecting billions of social media users.
Data centers are booming in the post-pandemic digital age, serving as the engine that enables Meta's operations and providing infrastructure for social media, cloud services, and AI applications.