Meta Drops $6.4M to Sell Off Wild Data Fortresses in Middle of Nowhere
KEY POINTS
- •Meta spent $6.4 million running ads in various US cities throughout late 2025 to promote new data centers.
- •The ads focus on facilities in Altoona, Iowa, and Los Lunas, New Mexico, portraying them as rural job creators.
- •Reported by The New York Times and The Verge, the campaign presents data centers as community saviors in struggling towns.
In a plot twist only 2025 could dream up, Meta funneled a hefty $6.4 million into ads portraying data centers as rural job saviors from Sacramento to Washington. The star attractions? Massive data hubs in nowhere-town Altoona, Iowa, and Los Lunas, New Mexico, where the script paints a near-apocalyptic town revival tale. Somehow, silicon servers are the new cornfields that’ll bring Midwest miracles. This folksy PR campaign, documented by The New York Times and amplified by The Verge, seems to suggest computers hoarding your memes also moonlight as Hamlet-worthy heroes starring in the country’s biggest ‘comeback kid’ story.
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Meta's idea of saving American towns? Dump giant data centers that suck up all the power and call it 'job creation.' Next up: AI offering Grandma knitting tips in Rust.
Nothing screams revival like tiny towns rebranded as tech's new amusement parks for internet giants. Come for the jobs, stay for the eternal server hum.
Meta invests millions to gaslight rural America into loving data centers—because why fix local economies when you can just plug in a server farm?
Source: Theverge | Published: 1/27/2026 | Author: Stevie Bonifield
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