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McHenry Celebrates Groundbreaking of Facebook’s Rutherford Data Center
Forest City, NC,
Nov 11 -
Today, Congressman Patrick McHenry (NC-10) attended and made remarks at the groundbreaking ceremony for Facebook’s new Rutherford Data Center in Forest City. Construction of the data center officially began today and is expected to continue over the next 18 months. The facility will house thousands of computer servers that will store data and respond to user requests and interactions through the Facebook website.
Facebook’s Rutherford Data Center is one of the first of its kind built and owned by the company, and is the company’s first data center located outside of the Pacific Northwest. Facebook anticipates a capital investment in the data center and its servers of $450 million over five years. The Rutherford facility will employ 250 or more during its construction, and will hire a staff of 35 to 45 full-time and contract employees.
“The Facebook brand represents constant innovation, expansion, and investment in new ideas. These are the core components of our country’s job-creation engine,” said McHenry. “We see the results of that here today, as Facebook’s success has brought them to Forest City to make a great investment in this community. These are the jobs Western North Carolina needs to push forward in an economy increasingly dependent on new technologies.”
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