Tennessee's Meta data farm to expand capacity for memes, photos, status updates

Good news for Facebook socialites sharing cat memes, inspired status updates and photo galleries of fun nights out. The already-massive Tennessee hub for Meta's data storage and processing is expanding. Twenty miles north of Nashville, in the relatively quaint town of Gallatin, a collection of colossal server farms that store Meta's content in Tennessee and beyond will add a fifth warehouse location. Meta, the parent company of Facebook, recently filed a site-plan request to begin construction on a 276,000 square-foot data center. Like the four other data centers at the...