DPR Fortis Mission Critical Breaks Ground on Facebook's Newest Data Center Campus

FORT WORTH, Texas — DPR Construction, in joint venture with Fortis Construction, recently broke ground on a new data center for Facebook in the AllianceTexas development in north Fort Worth, Texas.

The 500,000-square-foot facility will incorporate the latest in computing infrastructure design. The facility is expected to be online starting in late 2016.

This Fort Worth project is the fourth Facebook data center campus built by the DPR Fortis Mission Critical team. Previous projects include :

• Facebook's first ground-up data center in Prineville, Oregon
• Two 370,000-plus-square-foot facilities in Forest City, North Carolina, as well as ancillary buildings
• A 300,000-square-foot data center in Lulea, Sweden—Facebook's first data center outside of the U.S.