Paighten HarkinsA Silicon Valley company that provides IT services to global corporations plans to lay off 50 contractors from Meta’s Eagle Mountain data center.
Milestone Technologies, Inc. announced the layoff last week on the state’s Department of Workforce Services pre-layoff services website. Meta is the parent company of Facebook and Instagram. The company first broke ground on its Eagle Mountain data center in 2018; it has grown out into a 4.5 million square-foot campus.
The permanent layoffs were “due to the end of Milestone’s contract with our client,” according to a letter from the company’s human resources staff sent to state officials in late April.
While the letter, obtained in an open records request, does not mention Meta by name, it provides the address of its client, which matches the address of Meta’s data center on the city’s south side.
Milestone Technologies representatives did not respond to The Salt Lake Tribune requests for comment.
Jobs lost include dozens of data center logistics associates, the logistics team’s leader and manager, and a safety risk coordinator.
The “first separation” will occur June 28, the letter indicates.
Paighten is an Enterprise reporter at The Salt Lake Tribune. She covers a variety of topics, including business, health, growth and the legal justice system — sometimes all at once. She is from southern Oklahoma, and lived and worked in the state, most recently at the Tulsa World, before starting at The Tribune in October 2017.