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Meta’s Singapore data center was planned as an 11-story, 170,000-square-meter facility in Tanjong Kling. When Facebook announced the design in 2019, it called the building a candidate to be the world’s largest data center under one roof—but that was a forecast, not a verified current ranking. Meta’s available project information lists investment and workforce figures, but does not establish the facility’s exact completion or operating date.
What is Meta’s Singapore data center?
It is a large data center project in Singapore’s Tanjong Kling Data Center Park. A data center is a physical facility that houses computing equipment and the systems that support it, including power and cooling infrastructure. Meta described the project as its first custom-built data center in Asia. The company said it broke ground in September 2018, according to its 2018 data-center year-in-review.
How big was the planned facility?
In a January 2019 design article, Meta described an 11-story building on a 12-acre site, with 170,000 square meters of planned floor area. The company said the building would be a candidate for the world’s largest data center under one roof. That wording described a prospective claim; the available information does not verify that the building later held the title or establish a ranking against comparable facilities today.
“Largest” can also refer to different measures: the floor area of one building, the land occupied by a site or campus, or computing capacity. These figures describe the planned building’s floor area and site area, not its power capacity. A meaningful comparison with another operator would need to use matching measures.
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Where is it, and what project figures does Meta report?
The facility is in Tanjong Kling Data Center Park, Singapore. Meta’s current global data center locations page lists more than S$1.4 billion in investment, 3,000 trade workers at peak construction, and more than 100 operational jobs supported once complete. These are Meta’s figures; the page does not state when they were last updated. It also does not give an exact completion or operational date, so those milestones cannot be pinned down from the published figures cited here.
Why did Meta design it vertically?
Meta said Singapore’s limited land availability influenced a space-conscious, 11-story design. Building upward allowed the company to plan a large amount of floor area on a 12-acre site. This is a different measure from a data-center campus spread across multiple buildings, which is why the building’s planned floor area should not be treated as equivalent to another site’s total acreage.
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How was the building designed to manage heat and energy?
Data centers produce heat as their computing equipment operates, so cooling is a major part of facility design. Meta said Singapore’s hot, humid climate can make conventional cooling more energy-intensive and raise a facility’s power usage effectiveness, or PUE. PUE compares a facility’s total energy use with the energy used by its computing equipment; a lower value means less overhead energy per unit used by the computing equipment.
Cooling system
Meta said the facility would use StatePoint Liquid Cooling, developed with Nortek Air Solutions. In the system description Meta published, outside air and evaporation cool water, and that water then removes heat from air supplied to the data hall. Meta reported that its tests indicated peak water use could be reduced by more than 20% in climates like Singapore’s. That is a company-reported test result and potential reduction, not an independently confirmed measurement of the operating facility.
Expected efficiency
Meta’s January 2019 design article gave an expected annual PUE of 1.19 for the project. This was a design expectation, not a measured annual operating result. The available figures do not provide an operating-period PUE with which to assess actual performance.
What did Meta say about renewable energy?
In 2019, Meta said the facility would be supported by renewable energy and cited a 50-megawatt solar procurement agreement as well as planned rooftop solar. Those were plans described at the time. The cited information does not establish current energy matching, the amount of electricity generated by rooftop panels, or the facility’s present renewable-energy output.
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Does the project still hold the “largest” title?
The available project descriptions do not establish that. Meta’s 2019 article said the planned building would be a candidate for the world’s largest data center under one roof, rather than confirming a later record. The published figures also do not provide a consistent current comparison of building area, campus area, power capacity, cooling, or measured PUE against other facilities. Treat the headline’s “largest” language as a description of the project’s ambition at announcement, not a current, independently verified ranking.
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