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Dutch town of Zeewolde agrees to permit for major Facebook data centre

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Published: Dec 16, 2021, 22:23 UTC

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The town of Zeewolde, 50 kilometres (31 miles) east of Amsterdam, on Thursday voted to grant a permit to Meta to build the largest data centre in the Netherlands.

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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The town of Zeewolde, 50 kilometres (31 miles) east of Amsterdam, on Thursday voted to grant a permit to Meta to build the largest data centre in the Netherlands.

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp will be able to serve users all over Europe from the centre.

(Reporting by Stephanie van den Berg, Editing by Rosalba O’Brien)

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