Some more background info from the Papillion Times:
Work on the site is expected to begin immediately. Dan Madrigal, who works on acquisitions for infrastructure for Facebook, said if weather cooperates, they expect the facility to be completed in two years. He anticipates there will be "a couple hundred" permanent jobs once the facility is complete.
WBR_Tom wrote:Some more background info from the Papillion Times:
Work on the site is expected to begin immediately. Dan Madrigal, who works on acquisitions for infrastructure for Facebook, said if weather cooperates, they expect the facility to be completed in two years. He anticipates there will be "a couple hundred" permanent jobs once the facility is complete.
WBR_Tom wrote:Some more background info from the Papillion Times:
Work on the site is expected to begin immediately. Dan Madrigal, who works on acquisitions for infrastructure for Facebook, said if weather cooperates, they expect the facility to be completed in two years. He anticipates there will be "a couple hundred" permanent jobs once the facility is complete.
Pretty good growth already. Went from 100 permanent jobs in the first announcement I read to a couple hundred in less than 8 hours.
Well, as big as it looks there will be a lot of dusting and mopping and general cleaning to do, not to mention the bathrooms. In addition, big lawn to mow and lots of shoveling in the winter.
I'm excited to see that Facebook is investing in the Omaha Metro area. We have Great data center's already in the Metro area. We have 3 Google data center's, Yahoo, Travelers , Tier Point , First Data, Scott's (UNO) and now Facebook! If we can keep enticing companies to build their data center's in the Metro area or even to relocate their headquarters's to Nebraska it would be a big win for Omaha and Iowa all around! Job wise the most jobs will be for Security and janitorial staffing. Idk if Facebook has in house security or contracted security but a Data center that size needs a good size security force to make sure data isn't taken out. As for actual Facebook jobs it wouldn't be much. As far as salaries they make a good amount of money I'd say probably the average salary there would be $60,000 to $80,000 year if you worked for Facebook there.
Also this should be a wake up call for OPPD to invest heavily into wind energy and possibly Solar energy as well. If you want to get tech companies you need to entice them with clean energy. Most companies love gloating that they run on 100% clean energy.
Now if only a creative person could setup a camera near the site, and take a time lapse video over the next few months. It would be interesting to see how quickly the site is developed. I heard on the last episode of Grow Omaha that construction is already well underway in less than a week of the announcement, impressive!
michaelt wrote:Now if only a creative person could setup a camera near the site, and take a time lapse video over the next few months. It would be interesting to see how quickly the site is developed.
If its anything like the travels data center, it won't even be visible from the road.
From todays owh story about the 6 year journey to landing the Facebook data center a couple of things are clear.
1) The Greater Omaha Chamber stumbled in preparing shovel ready land for large developments. Over the years they did. Why not recently I just don't understand.
2) With all the bloviating about clean energy it appears that this wasn't that big an issue.
damonhynes wrote:You can see Springfield from the construction site, but the sign on the corner at NE-50 reads "Papillion Data Center". Sigh.
Papillion city limits are just west of Springfield (see the map I just posted) hence, closer to the Data Center. Springfield had a lot to say about that annexation, but ultimately lost. Springfield will be Papillion's Ralston.
damonhynes wrote:You can see Springfield from the construction site, but the sign on the corner at NE-50 reads "Papillion Data Center". Sigh.
Papillion city limits are just west of Springfield (see the map I just posted) hence, closer to the Data Center. Springfield had a lot to say about that annexation, but ultimately lost. Springfield will be Papillion's Ralston.
Facebook's already mammoth Papillion data center — which isn't yet online — is already expanding, the company announced Monday morning.
That means the social media giant's investment in the project is now expected to top $1 billion.
The facility will grow to 2.6 million total square feet, expand to six data hall buildings, jump to the east side of Nebraska Highway 50 and sit on 290 acres.
Included in the expansion:
» Another, 670,000-square-foot complex -- made up of two main data center buildings connected by an administration building -- on the northwest side of Highway 50 and Capehart Road.
» An additional, 970,000-square-foot complex -- featuring two more main data center buildings and an administrative building -- on the east side of Highway 50.
Project leaders will break ground on the expansion in April, a year after Facebook unveiled its initial plans for the data center. Those buildings are expected to come online in 2023.
ita wrote: ↑Sun Feb 24, 2019 9:06 pm
What is the additional land for? Any ideas?
I thought I posted this photo on the forum, but I guess not. You can see the lot on the left side of my photo here, its all being used for parking and construction staging currently.
bigredmed1 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 10:17 am
Rumor has it that FB wants to build a tunnel under hwy 50 to connect both parcels into a very large data center.
I think that's more than a rumor. I know they talked about it on Grow Omaha last fall.
ita wrote: ↑Sun Feb 24, 2019 9:06 pm
What is the additional land for? Any ideas?
I thought I posted this photo on the forum, but I guess not. You can see the lot on the left side of my photo here, its all being used for parking and construction staging currently.
bigredmed1 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 10:17 am
Rumor has it that FB wants to build a tunnel under hwy 50 to connect both parcels into a very large data center.
I think that's more than a rumor. I know they talked about it on Grow Omaha last fall.
Def more than a rumor. I have talked to the Nebr contractor that has the equipment to do it and was putting together a proposal.
For the record NEBUGEATER does not equal BUGEATER !!!!!!!
bigredmed1 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 10:17 am
Rumor has it that FB wants to build a tunnel under hwy 50 to connect both parcels into a very large data center.
I heard it was supposed to be a little river with the boats that European Village never used.
bigredmed1 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 10:17 am
Rumor has it that FB wants to build a tunnel under hwy 50 to connect both parcels into a very large data center.
It's literally in the link of the first post of this thread. From 2016.