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Meta
Data Centre Leader: Rachel Peterson Industry: Hyperscale
Meta builds and operates its own data centre estate, with 33 data centres across the Americas, Europe and Asia supporting Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and its Llama model family. The company’ s 2025-2026 capital programme, weighted towards AI training and inference capacity, has made it one of the sector’ s defining sources of demand for land, power and construction labour. Two projects illustrate the shift in scale: Hyperion in
Richland Parish, Louisiana, designed to grow towards 5GW, and Prometheus in New Albany, Ohio, scheduled to come online in 2026. Meta’ s influence extends beyond its own footprint through the Open Compute Project, which it founded in 2011 and which now shapes rack, server and facility design industry-wide. Sustained renewable power purchasing and a commitment to restore more water than it consumes by 2030 set reference points others follow.
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