Meta El Paso
1 GW AI data center in El Paso, TX, United States: under construction.
- Capacity: 1 GW
- Location: El Paso, TX, United States
- Developer: Meta
- Status: under construction
- Estimated cost: $14B
- Energy source: Renewable
Meta El Paso is a 1 GW AI data center project located in El Paso, TX, United States, currently under construction. It is being built by Meta. The estimated build cost is $14B. Its energy source is listed as Renewable. This project is one of thousands of data-center facilities tracked by Data Center Index across TX, United States, covering operational, under-construction, announced, and permitted sites.
Project description
Meta's El Paso data center campus is under construction, with over 2,300 workers on site, and will have 1 gigawatt of compute capacity. The approximately $14 billion development cost is shared by Meta and BlackRock under a July 2026 venture, and capacity begins coming online in 2028.
Public companies linked to Meta El Paso
Developers, tenants, and suppliers tracked by Data Center Index with exposure to this project:
- Meta Platforms (META), developer · hyperscaler
- Meta Platforms (META), tenant · hyperscaler
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Frequently asked questions
- What is Meta El Paso?
- Meta El Paso is an AI data center project in El Paso, Texas tracked by Data Center Index. Its status is under construction.
- Where is Meta El Paso?
- Meta El Paso is in El Paso, Texas. Every tracked Texas campus, with counts and capacity, is at https://datacenterindex.ai/markets/texas.
- How big is Meta El Paso?
- Data Center Index tracks Meta El Paso at 1 GW, on an estimated $14B build. The developer or the press states that capacity, in a source dated July 28, 2026.
- Who is building Meta El Paso?
- Meta is developing Meta El Paso.
- When will Meta El Paso come online?
- The next building at Meta El Paso is expected online 2028. That date is the first building going live, not the full build-out.
- Which public companies are linked to Meta El Paso?
- Data Center Index links 2 tracked public companies to Meta El Paso: Meta Platforms (META), Meta Platforms (META). Each is a developer, tenant or supplier with a sourced link to the project.
Sources
- AI Data Center Index facility profile: Meta El Paso Ai Mega Campus Texas (manual · aggregator · 2026-04-29)
- Meta Announces New Strategic Venture with BlackRock to Develop Data Center in El Paso (investor.atmeta.com · press · 2026-07-28)
- Yahoo Finance (finance.yahoo.com · press · 2026-07-30)
- Meta Newsroom (about.fb.com) (about.fb.com · press · 2026-07-28)
- Quartz via Yahoo Finance (finance.yahoo.com · press · 2026-07-28)