Facebook is building a massive wind-powered data center in Texas

Facebook is beefing up its infrastructure to support the next 1 billion users.

To get there, the company announced on Tuesday it is building a massive wind-powered data center in Fort Worth, Texas.

Construction is already underway on the project, which will consist of three 250,000-square-foot buildings sprawled across the 111-acre site. When the Fort Worth data center comes online in late 2016, it will be 100% powered by 200 megawatts of wind energy and cooled using outdoor air instead of air conditioners.

Ken Patchett, Facebook's director of data center operations, wrote in a post that the data center would help improve the social network's growing global infrastructure, which supports Facebook on desktop and mobile, as well as Internet.org, the Facebook-backed service that aims to bring free Internet to people in emerging markets Read more...