Meta Breaks Ground on $10B Indiana Data Center
This 1-gigawatt campus marks one of the company's largest infrastructure investments to date.
Meta has broken ground on its 1-gigawatt data center campus in Lebanon, Ind. The project represents more than $10 billion in data center and community infrastructure—one of Meta’s largest investments of this kind to date.
This represents the company’s second campus in Indiana and will be designed to handle both AI workloads and Meta’s core products. It will be part of the developer’s global infrastructure capabilities.
The data center project will generate more than 4,000 construction jobs in the area, as well as 300 operational jobs. Meta is also launching a workforce development program through the Boone County Career Collaborative.
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The complex will achieve LEED Gold certification and will include water-efficient closed-loop and liquid-cooled systems that will recirculate the same water. It will consist of around a dozen facilities of various sizes, according to the company’s renderings.
Meta is working with Wabash Valley Power Alliance and Boone Power and is paying the full costs for energy use, in addition to planning for its energy needs years in advance. The company committed to provide $1 million per year for the next 20 years to the Boone County REMC Community Fund.
The developer is also covering the full cost of water and wastewater services required for the project. Over the course of the new development, Meta will pay more than $120 million for critical water infrastructure in Lebanon, including other public infrastructure improvements, such as roads or utility upgrades.
AI boom fuels Meta’s expansion
Meta’s U.S. data center footprint consists of 27 campuses, with the company seeking to expand its nationwide fleet as the AI race intensifies. The company said it will spend $600 billion in AI data centers, infrastructure and job formation across the nation by 2028, in an effort to place the country at the forefront of advanced AI technology, the company revealed in November 2025.
Meta is steadily growing its fleet and is currently present in 18 states. One of its recent completions is in Kansas City, Mo., where the company brought its 1 million-square-foot hyperscale data center online in August 2025. The project was in the works since 2022 and is sited within Golden Plains Technology Park, a 5.5 million-square-foot data center campus developed by Diode Ventures.
Around that same time, Meta formed a strategic partnership with Pacific Investment Management and Blue Owl to land a $29 billion financing agreement for its Louisiana AI expansion. Set to rise on a 2,250-acre campus and to span 4 million square feet, this development could become the largest project of its kind in the Western Hemisphere.
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