Los Lunas Data Center

Full house at the Valencia County Business Bash! 🎉 Small business owners and nonprofit leaders from across the area came together to explore how AI tools, prompt engineering, and digital strategies can help grow their online presence and reach new customers.

Thanks to our partners Greater Valencia County Chamber of Commerce, Los Lunas is A Community That Works, and UNM-Valencia Campus for making it happen. And to Burritos Alinstante Authentically New Mexican for the filling breakfast!

ICYMI: Earlier this month, we celebrated our 2026 Data Center Community Action Grant recipients at the Los Lunas Data Center!

🎉 These local schools and nonprofits are doing incredible work across our community — putting technology to use for
community benefit, building strong, sustainable communities, and improving STEAM education.

A huge thank you to the local small businesses who helped make the celebration extra special:

🎂 Dough Daddy’s Delights
🎈 Events by Brittany
💐 Bloom Flowers and Gifts
☕ Double Cup Coffee Truck

We love partnering with local businesses to celebrate our community. Congratulations again to all of this year's grant recipients! 👏

📣 Calling all Business Owners, Managers, and Marketers in Valencia County! We're partnering with our friends at the Greater Valencia County Chamber of Commerce to host FREE hands-on trainings in Los Lunas next week on Thursday, May 28! 🎉

Whether you're looking to grow your online presence, reach more customers, or sharpen your digital marketing skills — this is for you.

🙌 You don't have to be a member to attend, but spots are filling up fast!

RSVP with the Chamber:
📧 [email protected]
📞 505-463-5558

See you there! 👋

Last week, we celebrated our 2026 Meta Data Center Community Action Grant recipients at the Los Lunas Data Center — and it was a joy to bring together this year’s grant recipients, community partners, Meta team members, and local leaders!

Through our Data Center Community Action Grants program, Meta provides funding for nonprofits and schools — addressing critical community needs by putting technology to use for community benefit, enabling people to build strong, sustainable communities, improving local STEAM education — to support the long-term vitality of Valencia County. Learn more on this year’s projects:

Belen Consolidated Schools: To engage gifted K–8 students in hands-on aerospace engineering and satellite design to master the principles of physics, robotics and orbital mechanics.

Belen Consolidated Schools - High Schools: To empower high school students to design and operate a solar-powered greenhouse that integrates renewable energy engineering with sustainable agricultural research.

Belen Public Library: To foster lifelong learning and innovation by expanding diverse collections and enhancing the community makerspace with modern technology and art supplies.

Explora: To introduce students and educators to computer science through collaborative programming, game design and immersive workshops with industry professionals.

Los Lunas Museum of Heritage and Arts, Government: To bring hands-on robotics, coding, and 3D design experiences directly to middle school classrooms through a community-enhanced learning initiative.

Los Lunas Schools: To provide students with immersive work-based learning and industry-recognized certifications through virtual reality career exploration and technical training.

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History: To expand equitable access to high-quality STEAM education by providing monthly free admission days for Valencia County residents, students and veterans.

New Mexico Technology Council: To equip high school students and young adults with practical AI skills, ethical literacy and technical guidance to prepare for the future digital workforce.

We R4Creating: To empower educators and students through a “train-the-trainer” model that establishes sustainable, student-led STEM leadership and peer-mentoring programs.

Valencia County Amateur Radio Association: To expand the middle school amateur radio and robotics elective, providing students with technical skills, field trips and FCC licensure opportunities.

Valencia County Literacy Council: To advance digital equity by strengthening rural tech centers and launching a mobile library that delivers technology and tutoring to isolated adult learners.

Valencia Shelter Services: To create secure digital pathways that link rural survivors to 24/7 crisis intervention, virtual advocacy and technology-driven safety planning.

WeCare4U: To transform local classrooms into real-world science labs where students test, map, and present water quality data to drive community environmental action.

Our thanks to Los Lunas Mayor Charles Griego for joining us and warmly welcoming the recipients.

Yesterday, we announced that we’re breaking ground on our 28th U.S. Meta data center in Tulsa, Oklahoma! When coming to a new community, Meta is committed to making a positive impact by investing in local schools and nonprofits, partnering on local water restoration projects, adding energy to the grid and supporting local jobs to build and operate the data center.

We're building the future of human connection and once operational, the Tulsa Data Center will be part of the highly advanced infrastructure that helps connect billions of people around the world.

We are proud to call Oklahoma home – follow Tulsa Data Center for local updates

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This week we celebrated International Data Center Day. For us, it's an opportunity to reflect on what matters most: the data center communities we call home and celebrating the people who make these communities so special.

In 2025 alone, we supported more than 430 local projects and donated over $11.8 million to schools, nonprofits, and small businesses across our 30 communities in the United States, Europe, and Asia. This is part of our long-term commitment to data center communities where since 2011, Meta has invested over $94 million in 3,700 local projects.

From supporting STEM innovation in classrooms to workforce training programs, revitalizing community parks to helping small businesses grow — we’re grateful for all the partnerships we have with local organizations that are dedicated to investing in their communities.

Learn more about our 2025 community impact: https://datacenters.atmeta.com/2025YearInReview/

Margaux Mizell's name is now among New Mexico's most impactful women in technology, and we couldn't be happier to celebrate with her!

As part of the 2026 New Mexico Technology Council’s Women in Tech Awards, Margaux represents the best of what the industry has to offer. Her dedication to operational excellence and mentoring the next generation of tech professionals makes her a true role model.

The best part? Having the opportunity to support Margaux at last week’s event and hear her share her story in her own powerful words.

Congratulations to Margaux and thank you to the New Mexico Technology Council for recognizing such an amazing group of leaders! More about the awards: https://nmtechcouncil.org/nm_women_in_tech-awards/