Facebook to Build $800 Million Data Center in Gallatin, Tennessee
- source
- Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce (posted as a "blog" entry)
- headline
- Facebook to Build $800 Million Data Center in Gallatin, Tennessee
- byline
- (none stated — institutional release, no author credited)
- date
- August 11, 2020
- url
- https://www.nashvillechamber.com/blog/facebook-to-build-800-million-data-center-in-gallatin-tennessee/
- archive
- (none — no Internet Archive capture found at retrieval)
- retrieved
- 2026-08-17
- why saved
- REPRINT #1. The state press release republished word for word, including the all-caps release headline, the bulleted release summary lines, the "NASHVILLE, Tenn. --" dateline, and the "QUOTES" section header. No byline. No original reporting of any kind.
- forensic note
- renders "energy- and water- efficient" with a stray space, matching the Business Facilities copy but NOT the tn.gov page -- suggesting both worked from the same emailed/distributed version rather than the web page.
Download the original file · 2020-08-11-nashville-chamber-facebook-gallatin-verbatim-reprint.txt
[Full text as published: identical to the TNECD release saved alongside this file, with the complete untrimmed quotes from Lee, Rolfe, Peterson, Brown, Bradley, Haile, Lamberth and Weaver, closing with: "For more information, follow the Gallatin Data Center page on Facebook: www.Facebook.com/GallatinDataCenter."] Key verbatim paragraph: "The Facebook Gallatin Data Center will be among the most advanced, energy- and water- efficient data center facilities in the world. It will be supported by 100 percent renewable energy, will use 80 percent less water than the average, and, once completed, will be LEED Gold certified. Facebook has already partnered with the TVA to bring 220 MW of new solar energy to the Tennessee Valley to support Facebook's operations in the region."