The social media giant is negotiating a tax break to build a third data center in Central Oregon.
BY JACOB PALMER | DIGITAL NEWS EDITOR
Facebook is negotiating a tax break to build a third data center in Central Oregon.
The preliminary agreement would mirror the social media giant’s existing deals with the city of Prineville and Crook County.
With a new tax deal in hand, Facebook said it may give the go-ahead on the Prineville project by the end of the month. Ken Patchett, Facebook’s director of data center operations in the western United States, said the agreement enables the company to make “apples to apples” comparisons with other sites the company has been considering.
“We’re always studying where we could go, what we could do,” Patchett said.
Indications, though, are very strong that Facebook would prefer to expand in Prineville, where the company put its first corporate data center. A site for a third data center facility has been graded since the company began work on its second large facility there.
(SOURCE: OregonLive.com)
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