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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Meta
- Address and locality
- El Paso · El Paso County · Texas
- Lifecycle status
- reported under construction
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 1,000 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 8 September 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000932
What the source record says
Campus located in far Northeast El Paso near Texas-New Mexico state line on approximately 1,000 acres; coordinates are approximate city-area centroid, exact parcel not publicly identified. Meta's third Texas data center. Campus can scale to 1 GW. Construction jobs figure (4,000) reflects updated peak estimate from March 2026 $10B expansion announcement.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2025-10 · reported proposed
Meta announces El Paso campus with initial $1.5B investment.
- 2025-10 · reported under construction
Groundbreaking October 15, 2025. Site is Meta's 29th data center globally, third in Texas.
Sources and attribution
- Meta breaks ground on El Paso AI-optimized data center · Meta
- Meta boosts El Paso investment from $1.5B to $10B · CNBC
- Plan to run El Paso data center on natural gas sparks concern · Texas Tribune
- Big things are happening, El Paso! · Meta Data Centers
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID meta-el-paso-tx. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added.
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