Meta, the owner of Facebook, announced on their corporate site this week, that they've become an investor in Enel Green Power's Alta Farms Wind Project in DeWitt County.

In the Meta news release, it stated that it was investing in Enel's project in DeWitt County, as well as a wind project in Morgan County, to feed the local grid, as their way of lowering the carbon footprint.

Meta is also building a new Data Center in DeKalb County, providing some 200 jobs for northeast Illinois.