# Meta

Organization · [Tulsa and Oklahoma ecosystem](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/tulsa)

Also called: Meta Platforms, Facebook, Meta Tulsa data center, Meta data center

The company behind Facebook, Instagram and [WhatsApp](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/whatsapp). In April 2026 it broke ground on a [data center](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/data-center) in Tulsa, its first in Oklahoma. In the same announcement it said it is partnering with [Tulsa Tech](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/tulsa-tech) and [Tulsa Community College](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/tulsa-community-college) to support a [workforce development](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/workforce-development) program and learning lab for digital infrastructure careers.

**For example:** A Tulsa student who wants to work in a [data center](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/data-center) asks [Tulsa Tech](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/tulsa-tech) and [Tulsa Community College](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/tulsa-community-college) about their training for those jobs.

Official site: <https://www.meta.com/about/>

## Connects to (13)

- [Tulsa Community College](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/tulsa-community-college): Tulsa's public community college.
- [Tulsa Tech](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/tulsa-tech): Tulsa's public career and technology education district.
- [Data center](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/data-center): A building that houses the computers, storage and network equipment that run online services, along with the power and cooling they need.
- [Hyperscaler](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/hyperscaler): An informal name for the very largest cloud providers, which run huge fleets of data centers.
- [Talent](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/terms/talent): The skilled people a company can hire or work with, such as software engineers and designers.
- [Social media](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/social-media): Sites and apps where people share posts, photos and videos and follow each other, such as LinkedIn, YouTube and Facebook.
- [Online advertising](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/online-advertising): Paying to show ads on search engines, social media, websites and apps, often aimed at specific audiences.
- [WhatsApp](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/whatsapp): A messaging app for text, voice notes, calls and group chats, used widely around the world.
- [Meta AI](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/meta-ai): Meta's AI assistant, available in its own app and inside Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger.
- [Llama](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/llama): Meta's family of AI models whose weights are published for download.
- [React](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/react): A JavaScript library for building user interfaces out of reusable pieces called components.
- [React Native](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/react-native): A framework from Meta for building iPhone and Android apps with React and JavaScript, sharing most of the code between the two.
- [Meta Conversions API](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/conversions-api): A Meta service that lets a business send sales and signup events from its own server to Meta, so ads can be measured without relying only…

## Follow

- [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/Meta)
- [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/meta/)
- [X](https://twitter.com/Meta)
- [Threads](https://www.threads.net/@meta)
- [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/meta)

## Sources

- <https://about.fb.com/news/2026/04/breaking-ground-new-ai-optimized-data-center-tulsa-oklahoma/>
- <https://www.okcommerce.gov/meta-breaks-ground-on-data-center-in-tulsa/>


Map view: https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/meta