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

AMSTERDAM, Dec 16 (Reuters) – The town of Zeewolde, 50 kilometres (31 miles) east of Amsterdam, on Thursday voted to grant a permit to Meta (FB.O) 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.

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

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