Meta’s $10 Billion El Paso Data Center: What It Means for West Texas
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In July 2026, Meta and BlackRock announced a venture to finance, develop, and operate a major data center campus in El Paso, Texas, representing more than $10 billion in Meta investment. The campus is expected to have 1 gigawatt of compute capacity and begin bringing capacity online in 2028, according to Meta’s official announcement.
For El Paso, West Texas, and the broader data center investment Texas market, the project signals continued demand for large-scale sites that can support AI, cloud, power, workforce, and infrastructure needs—adding another major anchor to the state’s rapidly expanding data center landscape.
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