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Facebook Data Center In New Mexico To Be Powered By 100% Renewable Electricity

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We want to build on this strong momentum, and today we're thrilled to announce we're expanding our Los Lunas data center to include a second 460,000 square foot building bringing the total square footage to 980,000. Building one will be live and serving traffic in late 2018, and now with a second building, we expect to keep construction crews busy until 2020. At peak, we project 1,000 construction workers will be on site daily. This expansion will also add additional full-time employees. Just like the first, our second building will be one of the most advanced and energy efficient data center facilities in the world, featuring the latest in OCP server, storage, and network designs. It will also be powered with 100 clean and renewable energy thanks to the new renewable energy tariff we worked extensively with Public Service Company of New Mexico to design and implement. Were so grateful to Gov. Susana Martinez, as well as our federal, state, and local partners, for their ongoing support. Our appreciation goes out to the entire Los Lunas community and our employees, whose encouragement has enabled us to reach this point. We're proud to call Los Lunas our home.(Courtesy: Facebook) dhanson@abqjournal.com Mon Jul 17 16:34:44 -0600 2017 1500330883 FILENAME: 671963.jpg

Facebook’s $1 billion data center in Los Lunas in New Mexico will be served with 100% renewable electricity. An approval was granted for the construction of two 50 MW solar farms.

Facebook’s Los Lunas data center in New Mexico is expected to bring its first two buildings online later this year while construction continues through to 2023. In an effort, therefore, to ensure that the data center remains true to its vision of being powered entirely by renewable electricity.

US energy company PNM Resources, through its New Mexico utility PNM, has received approval from the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission (NMPRC) to purchase 100 MW of solar electricity from NM Renewable Development (NMRD).

NMRD — a joint venture between subsidiaries of PNM Resources and American Electric Power — will build two 50 MW solar PV generation facilities in New Mexico — the first of which will be completed and operation by the end of 2019, followed in June 2020 by the second facility.

Together, the two facilities are expected to bring $140 million worth of new investment to New Mexico and create approximately 200 construction jobs.

The move comes seven months after PNM was approved for three Power Purchase Agreements by the NMPRC worth a total of 266 MW to power the expansion of Facebook’s data center — the electricity coming from a mix of wind and solar facilities to be built across New Mexico.

 

 

 

 

 

Reference- Cleantechnica, abqjournal

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