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Facebook confirms its $300M open-source data center in Iowa

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Facebook has just confirmed that it is, in fact, building a new, fancy, open-source data center in Altoona, Iowa.

All we know about Iowa, we learned from the classic musical State Fair — it’s full of honest, salt-of-the-earth types who have spring fever although it isn’t even spring and who really want them some blue ribbons for jam.

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