Facebook’s Midwest Move Bursts Tech’s Bicoastal Bubble

Facebook is opening another massive data center to power its hugely popular social networking platform. But this hub of high-tech computing couldn’t rise much farther from the coastal havens where the company anchors most of its operations. Instead, the data center–Facebook’s ninth–will make its home in a Nebraska town on the outskirts of Omaha called Papillion. That’s likely a good thing for this community of just under 22,000 Nebraskans. And it’s definitely a good thing for the tech industry as it tries to battle the perception that its inventions only destroy human jobs. As Facebook’s project would seem to show, tech can also create them.

Issie Lapowsky

Full Story: https://www.wired.com/2017/04/facebooks-shovel-ready-infrastructure-rest-america/