Located about 30 miles northwest of downtown Indianapolis, the development will be one of Meta’s largest infrastructure investments to date, with approximately $10 billion invested in data center infrastructure and the surrounding community.
According to the Facebook parent company, the site will support more than 4,000 construction jobs at peak and about 300 operational positions once online.
This new data center will be Meta’s second site in Indiana, joining a nearly 700,000-square-foot campus currently under construction in Jeffersonville along the Ohio River.
“As AI advances and compute demands continue to grow, gigawatt sites like this one will be critical to advancing the technology that supports our core business as well as our AI ambitions,” Meta said in a news release. “Building at this scale creates the flexibility to support both goals while enabling technology with higher bandwidth, lower latency, and improved reliability.”
For this latest development, Meta said it is working with local partners to address critical needs in Boone County through grants and workforce programs, donations to support energy affordability, and public infrastructure investments.
The hyperscaler also emphasized its commitment to sustainability, pledging to match 100% of the new data center’s energy use with clean energy. The campus will feature closed-loop liquid cooling technology.
This Lebanon project is part of a broader series of new build-outs for Meta, including recent announcements in Texas, Wisconsin, and Louisiana.
To support its AI infrastructure vision, Meta last month announced agreements with TerraPower, Oklo, and Vistra that together could support up to 6.6 GW of new and existing nuclear capacity by 2032.
