In collaboration with DPR and SmartLam, Meta is building the first mass timber administrative building on its data center campus in Aiken, South Carolina, this year, as www.datacenterdynamics.com reports. Later this year, the company also plans to begin construction of additional mass timber buildings at its Cheyenne, Wyoming site with Fortis Construction and Mercer Mass Timber, and at its Montgomery, Alabama site with Hensel Phelps and Binderholz.
Meta is not the first company in the data center business to advance the use of mass timber in construction. In October, Microsoft announced it would build two data centers in Northern Virginia partly in cross-laminated timber. Swedish company EcoDataCenter also used mass timber for its Falun campus.
Also earlier this year, German data center company Prior1 launched a prefabricated wooden module for data centers called IT Container Eco Fix. According to datacenterdynamics.com, it is made of spruce CLT and was developed in cooperation with the Derix Group.
