Facebook is building a massive data centre in Texas to provide more computing capacity for the online social network's 1.4 billion users to share titbits of their lives with friends and family.
The building in Fort Worth, Texas, spanning about 46,500 square metres, will be located on a 45-hectare site that will allow for further expansion.
Facebook Inc initially expects to employ 40 people at the data centre, which will rely solely on wind power to keep its computer servers running.
It will be Facebook's fourth data center in the US, joining others in Oregon, Iowa and North Carolina. The Menlo Park, California, company's only overseas data centre is in Sweden.
Rival Google Inc recently picked Alabama to be the home of its 14th data center.
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