Meta Unveils Plans For $10B Data Center Megacampus

Meta is building another gigawatt-scale U.S. data center campus, this time in the Hoosier State. 

The parent company of Facebook and Instagram announced Wednesday it will invest $10B to develop more than 4M SF of data center space in Lebanon, Indiana, a small city 30 miles northwest of Indianapolis. 

The 1,500-acre campus is being designed to support 1 gigawatt of capacity, with computing infrastructure spread across at least 11 data centers, according to renderings provided by Meta. 

Part of a massive global infrastructure build-out in which Meta has deployed hundreds of billions of dollars toward data centers, power and computing equipment, the company said its Lebanon campus will have the flexibility to handle artificial intelligence workloads as well as more traditional computing for its core products. 

“As AI advances and compute demands continue to grow, gigawatt sites like this one will be critical to advancing the technology that supports our core business as well as our AI ambitions,” the firm said in a statement Wednesday. “Building at this scale creates the flexibility to support both goals while enabling technology with higher bandwidth, lower latency, and improved reliability.”

The gigawatt of electricity slated for the Indiana site will be provided at least in part by regional power cooperatives Boone Power and the Wabash Valley Power Alliance.

Amid growing concerns across the U.S. about large-scale data center development driving up residential utility bills, Meta said it is working with Boone and Wabash to ensure it pays all costs associated with providing energy to the project so consumers aren't impacted.

As part of this effort, Meta said it is supporting the addition of four new generation projects in Indiana, accounting for 409 megawatts of new renewable energy. The company has also pledged to match all nonrenewable power consumed at the site with purchases of carbon-free power. 

Meta’s campus adds to a wave of data center development in Indiana that has made it one of the fastest-growing U.S. data center markets. Thirty data center projects were proposed across the state in 2025 alone, while four tech giants — Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Meta — have all announced large-scale data center plans in Indiana since the start of 2024.

While data center development in Indiana was initially clustered close to Chicago, hyperscalers and other developers are increasingly pursuing campuses near Indianapolis in the central part of the state. The city is between Chicago and Columbus, Ohio, a critical emerging digital infrastructure hub for Big Tech.

Meta’s Lebanon data center campus will be its second in Indiana. In 2024, the company began developing a 619-acre site in the town of Jeffersonville, on the Kentucky border. Meta pledged to invest at least $800M in the 700K SF project, which is now at least partially operational. 

While Meta operates around 30 data center campuses, its Indianapolis-area development would be just its third project slated for a gigawatt of computing capacity or more. 

The largest and highest-profile of these prior megacampuses is its Hyperion project in Richland Parish, Louisiana. Hyperion is planned to be Meta’s largest-ever campus, spanning nearly 4M SF of data center space across at least nine buildings. Initially billed as a 2,250-acre complex, Meta acquired an additional 1,400 acres for the project late last year. 

Financed through a $27B joint venture with Blue Owl Capital, Hyperion is expected to host 2 gigawatts of AI computing, although Meta CEO Mark  Zuckerberg has said its capacity could eventually surpass 5 GW. Some of that power will be generated by a new natural-gas power plant being developed next to the site by New Orleans-based energy firm Entergy.

Meta’s other gigawatt-scale project is Prometheus, a data center cluster the firm is building in New Albany, Ohio. Slated to come online this year, it is expected to be the first U.S. data center campus to have a gigawatt of computing capacity fully online, according to a SemiAnalysis report. 

But these three projects are unlikely to be the last gigawatt campuses Meta builds. Zuckerberg said last year that Meta will build “several” multigigawatt data center clusters, in addition to the two it had in development at the time, and the firm has subsequently ramped up its spending spree on U.S. data centers amid Big Tech’s AI arms race. 

In a November blog post, Meta’s leadership said it plans to invest $600B in U.S. data centers by 2028.

More immediately, Meta plans to nearly double its capital spending in 2026, potentially deploying as much as $135B toward data centers and other infrastructure, it said in its fourth-quarter earnings report. That is well above the $72.2B Meta spent last year. 

The capital expenditure surge also follows Zuckerberg’s January unveiling of Meta Compute, a “top-level initiative” to coordinate and finance data center build-out and power acquisition. 

“Meta is planning to build tens of gigawatts this decade, and hundreds of gigawatts or more over time,” Zuckerberg wrote on Meta’s Threads platform.  “How we engineer, invest, and partner to build this infrastructure will become a strategic advantage.”