Meta Altoona Data Center Campus
Meta · Altoona, IA · United States
Facility record
- Lifecycle
- OperationalSource-reported lifecycle
- Location precision
- approximate
- Address as listed
- Not published
- Coordinates
- 41.6459, -93.4696
- Serving utility, source-reported
- MidAmerican Energy
- Operational capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Planned capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-28
Source-reported capacity; not metered consumption. Review underlying documents and notes. Planned capacity may include future phases and is not added to operational capacity here. The source may use facility, grid-feed or IT capacity definitions; consult the linked documents.
Coordinate precision is a source label, not an independent parcel survey. A marker does not confirm utility territory or establish an effect on residential bills.
Reported lifecycle history
- 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
Underlying source
Source notes
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, recorded as the campus investment. Meta says more than 400 people work on-site in data center operations each day, and its info sheet lists "400+" operational jobs supported; the recorded permanent-job figure of 400 is that stated floor. As of October 2026, no cited source states the campus's operational capacity; ~350 MW per a third-party index is not recorded. 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). Meta's Altoona info sheet lists '$2.5B+' as data center investment in Iowa. The recorded investment is the cumulative figure for the whole campus; the ~$400M figure covers the 2019 Building 5 phase alone and is not recorded.
Served by MidAmerican Energy; Meta matches load with long-term Iowa wind PPAs, including the 225 MW Great Pathfinder Wind project (Boone & Hamilton Counties, Apex Clean Energy, ~2022) tied to Altoona. MidAmerican delivered ~100% renewable to its Iowa customers in 2022. No on-site generation.
Sources and provenance
- Meta Adds More Data Centers in Iowa, Pushing Campus to 5 Million SF · source retrieved 2026-07-08
- Building Meta's GenAI Infrastructure · source retrieved 2026-07-07
- Meta signs 225MW wind PPA in Iowa · source retrieved 2026-07-08
- Facebook receives tax incentive to build fifth Altoona data center · source retrieved 2026-07-08
- How much water do Iowa data centers use · source retrieved 2026-07-08
- Trip to Iowa gives officials close look at Meta data center · source retrieved 2026-07-08
- Meta Data Centers blog — Meta Announces New Expansion to Altoona Campus · source retrieved 2026-07-25
- Meta's Altoona Data Center (site info sheet) · source retrieved 2026-09-14
Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.