Facebook is going to spend $750 million on a new data centre in central Ohio, the company announced this on August 15. This is noticed as the marking of another boost for the state’s growing technology sector.
The world’s biggest social media company joined Republican Gov. John Kasich and a host of other dignitaries to announce its 10th data centre will be in New Albany, just northeast of Columbus.
The 22-acre (8.9-hectare) data centre will be powered exclusively by renewable energy. It is expected to employ 100 people to start and to begin providing services in 2019.
Rachel Peterson, the company’s director of data centre strategy and development, said several factors attracted Facebook to the location, including fibre and power infrastructure, government support, liability and the availability of high-tech talent.
Amazon opened three cloud-computing data centre sites in central Ohio last year. The company invested about $1 billion in centres in New Albany and two other Columbus suburbs, Dublin and Hilliard.
Ohio is diversifying its economy beyond its heavy reliance on manufacturing.
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