According to the latest report, Meta recently announced that it will invest $800 million to build a hyperscale data center in Temple, Texas. It is understood that the total planned construction area of the data center is about 900,000 square feet (equivalent to about 84,000 square meters).
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Moreover, the project construction will start this spring and is expected to be completed and put into operation in 2024. According to sources, the data center is likely to be powered by 100% renewable energy. Currently, Meta has invested more than 700 megawatts of new wind and solar energy in Texas.
As the entire society continues to develop towards digitalization and intelligence, the demand for data traffic and cloud services is increasing, and data centers have become one of the fastest-growing power consumption devices in the world.
In 2021, the national data center will consume 93.7 billion kWh of electricity and emit about 78.3 million tons of carbon dioxide. Therefore, people pay more and more attention to the energy consumption and carbon emissions of data centers.
In this context, China has proposed the dual-carbon goal of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, of which the transformation of data centers to greening is a major point. In this process, the use of energy technology and digitalization will play a big role.
