Meta broke ground on a more than $10 billion data center campus in Lebanon, Indiana, expanding its U.S. infrastructure footprint to support next-generation AI and cloud services. The site, located within the LEAP Innovation and Research District, ranks among Meta’s largest capital investments and will anchor a new Midwest hub for the company’s global network.
Meta will develop the 1,500-acre (approximately 607-hectare) campus in up to six phases, constructing 13 buildings, including 10 data center facilities along with logistics, warehousing, network, and administrative support structures. Once fully operational, the campus will support approximately 300 high-wage operational roles and more than 4,000 construction jobs at peak activity. The Lebanon build follows Meta’s $800 million, 700,000-square-foot (65,000-square-meter) data center project in Jeffersonville, Indiana, which nears completion.
The Indiana Economic Development Corporation approved performance-based incentives tied to capital investment and job creation. The agreement includes a 35-year data center sales tax exemption linked to at least $1 billion in eligible capital investment within the first six years. Additional five-year extensions apply to subsequent investment thresholds, up to a maximum of 50 years. Meta also committed to an annual $1.5 million community impact payment to the city of Lebanon for each completed phase, supporting workforce development and local quality-of-life initiatives.
• More than $10 billion in planned investment
• 1,500-acre (607-hectare) campus with 13 buildings, including 10 data centers
• Approximately 300 operational jobs and 4,000 peak construction jobs
• Up to six construction phases
• Performance-based tax incentives extending up to 50 years
• $1.5 million annual community impact payment per completed phase
• Second major Indiana data center project following Jeffersonville
“At Meta, we’re building the infrastructure that will power the next generation of AI technology, and Lebanon is now at the heart of that effort. This is one of our largest investments to date, and it marks an important milestone in our AI ambitions,” said Rachel Peterson, vice president of data centers at Meta.
🌐 Analysis: The Lebanon campus reinforces Meta’s strategy to scale AI infrastructure across multiple U.S. regions as model training and inference workloads expand. By securing long-term tax certainty and a large land footprint, Meta aligns with a broader hyperscaler trend toward multi-phase, multi-gigawatt data center developments in secondary markets.
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