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Facebook data center provides jobs and boosts local economy

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Facebook’s Ken Patchett showed up in Prineville, Oregon to run the company’s new-age data center, and Steve Forrester recognized him right away.

Forrester, Prineville’s city manager, is a fourth-generation Oregonian and about as far removed from a Silicon Valley insider as you can get.

But he remembered the Facebook man from a meeting years earlier, when Patchett sold him a wood chipper while working for an outfit that manufactured forest equipment. “It blew my mind,” Forrester says. “We actually have a lot in common.”

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