Project Domino: Meta’s Midwestern $4.8 Billion AI Campus

Lebanon, Indiana is emerging as the latest Midwest hub in Meta’s expanding AI infrastructure footprint. Located in Boone County, the city has been selected for one of the company’s most ambitious data center developments to date.

Originally surfacing in filings from November 27, 2024, Project Domino has grown from an $800 million proposed data center to a development that could ultimately scale to $4.8 billion making it one of Meta’s largest U.S. infrastructure commitments to date.

12 Buildings + AI-Network Hub: Over 4.6M Sq Ft of Compute Infrastructure

New filings reviewed by Aterio show that Meta is planning 12 data center buildings, each 361,119 square feet, alongside a dedicated AI-Network building totaling 336,409 square feet. Combined, this would bring the total square footage to:

▶ 4,669,837 sq ft of data infrastructure under a single campus.

This layout echoes Meta’s evolving design strategy seen at its Prometheus and Temple campuses—pairing traditional hyperscale shells with next-gen AI-specific structures optimized for model training, inference, and internal LLM orchestration.

🛰️ Satellite imagery from August 14, 2025, confirms that no on-site construction activity has begun. However initial site work is expected to begin in late 2025.

Strategic Alignment: Scaling Compute per Researcher

Project Domino also aligns closely with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s recent statements about dramatically increasing compute access across the company’s AI teams. In Q2 2025 remarks, Zuckerberg reiterated that boosting compute per researcher is key to accelerating internal AI breakthroughs, including model training, multi-modal development, and foundational AGI work.

Facilities and campuses like Project Domino in Indiana and Meta’s new build in Richland Parish, Louisiana reflect a strategic pivot toward AI-dedicated, high-density infrastructure. These next-gen layouts are designed to support internal model training, inference, and iteration at scale.

For global investors, this shift highlights how Meta’s physical infrastructure roadmap is tightly coupled with its AI R&D ambitions. Tracking these developments isn’t just about real estate, it’s about anticipating where the next leap in model performance and AI capability will originate.

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