Overview
- The El Paso campus is designed to scale to 1 gigawatt of capacity and is targeted to begin operations in 2028.
- Meta projects roughly 1,800 peak construction roles and about 100 permanent jobs at the facility.
- The company says it will match electricity use with 100% renewable energy, deploy closed-loop liquid cooling, and restore 200% of the water consumed to local watersheds.
- Meta is funding new transmission lines and substations through its agreement with El Paso Electric, while El Paso previously approved incentives including an 80% city property-tax rebate per phase over 25 years.
- The site becomes Meta’s 29th data center and third in Texas, reinforcing a Borderland buildout that includes OpenAI and Oracle projects in nearby Santa Teresa.