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“Sociable” is the latest commentary on important social media developments and trends from industry expert Andrew Hutchinson of Social Media Today.
Meta has broken ground latest data center project in USAwhich represents a further expansion of the company’s artificial intelligence processing capacity, and a further step in its Commitment of $600 billion to develop infrastructure projects in the United States over the next three years.
The data center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, will be the company’s 28th in the US, its 32nd worldwide, and the first in the state. It will provide support for Meta’s expanding AI workloads to drive the next stage Push of superintelligence.
In fact, these days Meta is almost as much a data center infrastructure company as it is a social media company. Meta is pushing to build its data infrastructure as quickly as it can, in order to accelerate its AI development. The company is also looking to do as much as possible while US President Donald Trump is in office to leverage Trump’s support for expanding US business interests.
In the White House AI Action Plan, that was published July 2025government emphasized the need to support American businesses in order to ensure that the nation “global domain in artificial intelligence.“The plan also sets out specific measures to eliminate ‘red tape and burdensome regulation.’
This has apparently helped accelerate Meta’s broader AI development push, though Meta also knows that this more open approach may not last under the next administration. As such, Meta’s is looking to get as many data centers up and running as possible over the next three years.
At the same time, the company has pledged to guarantee water and electricity support in the regions where it is building. Meta is also committed to supporting local community projects in an effort to play a positive role in regional economies.
According to Meta: “Upon completion, our Tulsa facility will represent an investment of more than $1 billion in the region. We anticipate that more than 1,000 construction workers will be on site at the peak of construction, and upon completion, the data center will support approximately 100 operational jobs. We are also investing more than $25 million in local infrastructure improvements, including roads and water infrastructure.”
Meta has it too committed to the White House’s “Taxpayer Protection Pledge,” which aims to protect people in the US from negative impacts related to these developments.
Specifically in Tulsa, Meta has partnered with Tulsa Community College to support a new interdisciplinary workforce development program and learning lab for careers in digital infrastructure.
“We anticipate this partnership will create a pipeline of more than 200 graduates annually in technical trades, including cooling simulation, fiber optics and structured cabling, along with AI and data analytics programming,” Meta said.
The community’s contributions could end up being a significant benefit to the overall US economy, although it remains to be seen how much benefit these data centers provide within these regions, compared to the impact.
As The Atlantic reports, some data centers have ended with significant negative effects on local communities. While Meta is committed to limiting these harmful impacts, the final outcome remains to be seen.
Either way, this new data center is another step in Meta’s massive investment in AI, which could help fuel the next stage of its development.
