Many Dakota County residents have been thinking a lot about data lately.
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is constructing a 715,000-square-foot data center in Rosemount, and an unnamed company has proposed to build a 2.5 million-square-foot data center campus in Farmington. Additional data center proposals have been floated in Eagan, Rosemount and Apple Valley.
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