Technology giant Meta is trialling mass timber for an administrative building at a data centre campus in Aiken, South Carolina.
This year, the company plans to build mass timber buildings at its Cheyenne, Wyoming data centre site, overseen by Fortis Construction and Mercer Mass Timber, and in Montgomery, Alabama, a project run by Hensel Phelps and Binderholz.
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp’s parent company plans to incorporate mass timber into other administrative buildings, plus warehouses and the halls that house the data centre’s servers.
Meta says it has used low-carbon-concrete during data centre construction and plans to introduce steel created with near-zero-emissions.
Meta has recently signed nuclear and geothermal deals in Illinois and New Mexico in a bid to secure enough energy to develop AI.
It also announced plans for a $10bn data centre in Louisiana, an $800m data centre in Indiana, while cancelling two projects in Denmark in a pivot to AI. It also plans to lay the world’s longest undersea cable, a 50,000km long line that will link Brazil, India, South Africa and the US.
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