Meta has finally launched its Gallatin data center campus in Tennessee.
“We are thrilled to announce that Meta’s Gallatin Data Center is now serving traffic,” the company said this week on Facebook.
“That means this data center is now part of our global infrastructure that brings our technologies and services to life, making it possible to connect billions of people worldwide.”
The social media firm – then known as Facebook – first announced plans for an 800-acre Tennessee campus in 2020.
According to the Gallatin developments page, the original building was set to be a 982,500 sq ft (91,300 sqm) data center and associated infrastructure on 805 acres, located south of Roundtree Drive, west of Brights Lane, and north of Hartsville Pike.
DPR Construction celebrated the topping out of the first data center on the site back in January 2022. The campus was originally expected to come online in 2023.
Plans to expand the campus with another building were filed back in January 2022 (and confirmed by June) that would add 627,000 square feet (58,250 sqm) of data center space and 45,000 sq ft (4,180 sqm) of office space that is also complete.
Plans for another building were filed earlier this year.
Meta paused development of around a dozen data centers in late 2022 as part of a "rescoping" of its designs to better cater for GPUs and liquid cooling.
The social media giant signed a 110MW power purchase agreement (PPA) in 2021 to procure solar energy for the Gallatin facility. More PPAs in the region have been signed since.
“Through our partnership with Tennessee Valley Authority, eight Meta-supported projects are adding 530MW of new renewable energy in Tennessee,” the company said this week.
In April 2023, Meta said it was testing the use of mushrooms to break down drywall waste at its Gallatin campus.
“The state with the workers will win every time, and I am proud to welcome Meta to Sumner County. I thank Meta for their significant investment in the Volunteer State and look forward to our continued partnership, which will drive our economy and deliver even greater opportunity for Tennesseans,” said Tennessee Governor Bill Lee.
