With 2.98 billion monthly active users, Facebook is the third-busiest website on the internet and has built an extensive infrastructure to support its massive user base. Since it launched its first company-built and -operated server farm in Prineville, Oregon, in April 2011, the social media platform has not stopped building new data centers and seeking new data center sites. Facebook's data centers house tens of thousands of computer servers -- networked together and linked to the outside world through fiber optic cables.
The company behind a mega data center project in Fort Worth is unknown, however documents filed with the state reveal the names of the same planning and legal teams behind Facebook's recent Iowa data center.
Another blockbuster Facebook lease for Dupont Fabros, with the social media giant taking space in the new ACC7's constructed first phase and upcoming second phase.