Facebook is halting construction on its new $750 million data center in Alabama as well as the expansion of data centers in Ireland due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The Menlo Park, Calif.-based social media giant, named on CRN’s 10 Hot Hyperscale Data Center Companies To Watch in 2020, is one of the global leaders when it comes to spending billions annually on building and expanding data centers across the globe. Facebook spent approximately $16 billion on data center capex in 2019, according to Synergy Research Group.
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