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Award:<\/strong>\u00a0Data center construction Build a billion-dollar data center well, and the phone tends to ring again.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Meta has selected Minneapolis-based Mortenson and New York City-based Turner Construction to build a <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>$10 billion data center<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> in Lebanon, Indiana, according to a company news release.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The win adds to both contractors\u2019 Meta portfolio. The pair already worked together on <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Meta\u2019s $10 billion data center campus<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> near Monroe, Louisiana. Mortenson also broke ground on a <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>$1 billion Meta data center<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, in December.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The state-of-the-art campus in Lebanon will deliver 1 gigawatt of capacity once complete, according to a Meta news release shared with Construction Dive. The facility would be Meta\u2019s second data center in Indiana; the first is <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>another Turner-led project<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> in Jeffersonville.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n In addition, the groundbreaking also marks the launch of the Boone County Career Collaborative, a workforce development initiative, according to Meta. The program connects students in the area with local employers to develop skills and explore career pathways.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Meta\u2019s investments will also support area schools and nonprofits through its annual grant programs and contribute to local and state tax bases, according to the release.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The project budget earmarks $45 million in public road improvements and another $75 million in public water infrastructure projects, according to a Boone County Economic Development Corp. news release sent to Construction Dive. Meta also plans to improve habitat and decrease water runoff at nearby Deer Creek, according to the company.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re building the infrastructure that will power the next generation of AI technology, and Lebanon is now at the heart of that effort,\u201d said Rachel Peterson, vice president of data centers at Meta, in the Boone EDC release. \u201cThis is one of our largest investments to date, and it marks an important milestone in our AI ambitions.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n [ad_2] [ad_1] Award:\u00a0Data center constructionValue: $10 billionLocation:\u00a0Lebanon, IndianaClient:\u00a0Meta Build a billion-dollar data center well, and the phone tends to ring again. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[457],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction-dive","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Value: <\/strong>$10 billion
Location:<\/strong>\u00a0Lebanon, Indiana
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