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Facebook to build first APAC data center in Singapore
- Thursday | 6th September, 2018
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Facebook said on Thursday it will invest more than $1 billion to build its first data center in Asia in Singapore, slated to open in 2022. “This will be our first data center in Asia,” Thomas Furlong, Facebook’s vice president of infrastructure data centres, said at a press conference with local authorities in Singapore. “The data center isn’t country specific to where users are located … it’s a dynamic process,” said Furlong. Facebook said in a statement the 170,000 square metre facility represented an investment of more than S$1.4 billion ($1 billion) and would support hundreds of jobs. Facebook has a number of data centers in the United States as well as Ireland and Sweden, and it is building a facility in Denmark.
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