This is a source-attributed discovery row. It can help you find a place and its citations; it is not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is distinct or currently operating.
Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Meta
- Address and locality
- Altoona · Polk County · Iowa
- Lifecycle status
- reported operational
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Operational: 350 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 14 September 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000925
What the source record says
Operational since 2013; 5M+ sq ft after seven expansions — Meta's largest cloud campus. Meta's engineering blog documents Altoona as a GenAI infrastructure / LLaMA training site. INVESTMENT: 'more than $2.5 billion' is a cumulative multi-year figure across all expansions (in notes, not investmentUsd). 400+ on-site operations staff is a cumulative daily figure (in notes). ~350 MW per third-party index. Coordinates are the Altoona town centroid. Meta cites a cumulative capital investment of 'more than $2.5 billion' across seven Altoona expansions since 2013 (Data Center Frontier); the 2019 Building 5 phase was ~$400M (IEDA). Both are cumulative/single-phase figures -> investmentUsd omitted.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2013 · reported operational
Meta (Facebook) began building the Altoona campus in 2013; now its largest cloud campus at 5M+ sq ft after a seventh expansion; hosts GenAI/LLaMA compute
Sources and attribution
- Meta Adds More Data Centers in Iowa, Pushing Campus to 5 Million SF · Data Center Frontier
- Building Meta's GenAI Infrastructure · Engineering at Meta
- Meta signs 225MW wind PPA in Iowa · Data Center Dynamics
- Facebook receives tax incentive to build fifth Altoona data center · Construction Dive
- How much water do Iowa data centers use · KDSM17 (CBS Iowa)
- Trip to Iowa gives officials close look at Meta data center · Warren County Record
- Meta Data Centers blog — Meta Announces New Expansion to Altoona Campus
- Meta's Altoona Data Center (site info sheet) · Meta
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID meta-altoona-ia. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added.
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