Data Center Atlas
Meta El Paso Data Center
Under construction
United States · 1 project · Last reported
Summary
AI-oriented Meta campus on roughly 1,000 acres in northeast El Paso, Texas, off Stan Roberts Sr. Avenue near US 54. Announced in October 2025 as a USD 1.5 billion project able to scale to 1 GW, it rose to USD 10 billion or more of Meta investment in 2026. In July 2026 Meta placed it in a joint venture 80% owned by BlackRock-managed funds, with a total development cost of about USD 14 billion and capacity due to start coming online in 2028. El Paso Electric has proposed a 366 MW modular gas plant beside the campus; in September 2026 state judges recommended approving it only if ratepayers do not bear its costs.
Source record as of 2026-09-24 · Details and sources
Location
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Campus reference; individual project footprints are not mapped.
Projects (1)
Meta El Paso Current Development
Under construction last observed as of · Authoritative status update
This record reports under construction as of 2026-09-24. Meta Platforms; Inside Climate News
Location: El Paso, El Paso County, Texas, US. Sources place the campus in northeast El Paso off Stan Roberts Sr. Avenue and US 54. Coordinates are a Nominatim point on Stan Roberts Sr. Avenue near that junction, not the parcel centroid. Construction Reporter; KFOX14
Use: Ai unspecified
Capacity, investment and other figures
| Measure | Value | Scope | As of | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Power capacity | 1,000 MW | Planned · Campus · Unspecified | 2026-07 | Meta first said the site could scale to 1 GW; later reporting and the joint venture release describe 1 GW of compute capacity. IT versus facility scope is not stated. | FOX 26 Houston; Silicon UK; Meta Platforms |
| Power capacity | 366 MW | Planned · Campus · Onsite generation | 2026-09-24 | El Paso Electric's proposed McCloud gas plant on an adjacent site, still awaiting a Public Utility Commission of Texas decision. | Construction Reporter; Inside Climate News |
| Investment | 1,500,000,000 USD | Announced · Campus | 2025-10-15 | FOX 26 Houston | |
| Investment | 10,000,000,000 USD | Reported · Campus | 2026-03-30 | Reported as Meta's planned spending after the increase from USD 1.5 billion. | Silicon UK |
| Investment | more than 10,000,000,000 USD | Announced · Campus | 2026-07 | Meta's own investment commitment. | Meta Platforms; Meta Platforms |
| Investment | about 14,000,000,000 USD | Reported · Campus | 2026-07 | Total development cost of the Meta and BlackRock joint venture for buildings and long-lived power, cooling and connectivity infrastructure. | Meta Platforms |
| Land area | about 1,000 acres | Reported · Campus | 2026-01-20 | Construction Reporter | |
| Jobs construction | up to 1,800 count | Planned · Phase · Initial phase | 2025-10-15 | Peak construction workforce for the initial phase. | FOX 26 Houston |
| Jobs construction | more than 4,000 count | Planned · Campus | 2026-07 | Peak construction workforce; the July 2026 release said more than 2,300 workers were already on site. | Silicon UK; Meta Platforms; Meta Platforms |
| Jobs permanent | about 100 count | Planned · Campus | 2025-10-15 | FOX 26 Houston | |
| Jobs permanent | about 300 count | Planned · Campus | 2026-07 | Silicon UK; Meta Platforms; Meta Platforms |
Companies and organizations
| Name | Role | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meta Platforms | Developer | Provides construction management, administrative and property management services to the joint venture. | FOX 26 Houston; Meta Platforms |
| Meta Platforms | Owner | Retains a 20% stake in the joint venture. | Meta Platforms |
| Meta Platforms | Tenant | Initial sole occupant, with leases of a four-year initial term and four extension options for a potential 20-year term. | Meta Platforms |
| BlackRock (managed funds) | Owner | Funds managed by BlackRock hold 80% of the joint venture announced in July 2026. | Meta Platforms |
| El Paso Electric | Utility | Construction Reporter; Meta Platforms | |
| City of El Paso | Government | Approved tax abatement and economic development agreements for the project. | KFOX14 |
Timeline
| Date | Event | Actual or planned | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-15 | Announced | Actual | FOX 26 Houston | |
| 2025-H2 | Construction started | Actual | Reported as breaking ground in late 2025. | Silicon UK |
| 2026-03 | Expansion announced | Actual | Reported on 2026-03-30: Meta's planned investment raised from USD 1.5 billion to USD 10 billion. | Silicon UK |
| 2026-07 | Other | Actual | Joint venture with BlackRock-managed funds announced to develop and own the campus. | Meta Platforms |
| 2026-09 | Other | Actual | Administrative law judges proposed that the Public Utility Commission of Texas approve the McCloud gas plant only if ratepayers do not bear its capital and operating costs; no commission vote had been scheduled. | Inside Climate News |
| 2028 | First operational | Planned | Capacity is expected to begin coming online in 2028. | Silicon UK; Meta Platforms |
Power supply
| Type | Description | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Grid | Meta says it planned its energy needs with El Paso Electric and pays the full cost of the energy and infrastructure needed to serve the data center. | Meta Platforms |
| Natural gas onsite | El Paso Electric proposed the 366 MW McCloud plant on about 31 acres next to the campus, made up of 813 modular 450 kW gas generators supplied by Enchanted Rock; it would serve only Meta for its first five years. Reported cost estimates differ (USD 473 million in January 2026, USD 499 million in September 2026), and a state utility commission vote was still pending in late September 2026. | Construction Reporter; Inside Climate News |
Meta's joint venture release (s5) displays both 27 and 28 July 2026, so only the month is recorded. Meta's fact sheet PDF (s7) shows no publication date; its embedded file creation date is 2026-09-01.
Sources for these details
- Meta to spend $1.5 billion on AI data center in Texas — FOX 26 Houston; 2025-10-15 · Archived source
- El Paso Electric Announces Plans for 366 Megawatt Electric Plant to Support Meta Data Center — Construction Reporter; 2026-01-20 · Archived source
- Meta Ramps Spending On El Paso Data Centre To $10bn — Silicon UK; 2026-03-30
- El Paso leaders get update on Meta data center project, city cites enforceable agreements — KFOX14; 2026-04-13 · Archived source
- Meta Announces New Strategic Venture With BlackRock to Develop Data Center in El Paso — Meta Platforms; 2026-07
- Texas Electric Utility Only Considered Gas to Power $10 Billion Meta Data Center — Inside Climate News; 2026-09-24
- Meta El Paso Data Center fact sheet — Meta Platforms; publication date not stated · Archived source
- Companies
- Developer: Meta Platforms (unknown scope) evidence
- Developer: Meta Platforms (unknown scope) evidence
- Owner: Meta Platforms (unknown scope) evidence
- Tenant: Meta Platforms (unknown scope) evidence
- Owner: BlackRock (managed funds) (unknown scope) evidence
- Utility: El Paso Electric (unknown scope) evidence
- Utility: El Paso Electric (unknown scope) evidence
- Government: City of El Paso (unknown scope) evidence
Source and location review
- Status source
- Meta July 28 El Paso physical construction observation evidence row
Meta · published 2026-07-28 · Company disclosure - Locator
- Campus locator · Community source · community_named_campus_reference_point evidence
- Source checks
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No imagery review is recorded for this project. Its status rests only on the dated authoritative source. · no independent imagery verificationStatus age at review: 91 days before the data update on 2026-10-27
Location details
- Coordinates
- 31.99404, -106.36316
- Geometry licence
- CC-BY-SA-2.0, ODbL-1.0, no-open-license-asserted
- Use scope
- Campus locator
- Scope class
- community_named_campus_reference_point
- Authority
- Community source
- Source entity
- Campus
- Method
- nominatim_exact_named_campus_reference_point
- Derivation
- Use the single exact-name community feature, verify its source object geometry, and emit the unchanged service longitude/latitude in GeoJSON order.
- Precision scope
- Source way explicitly says boundary very approximate. The returned point is only a broad campus locator consistent with the municipal north-of-Stan-Roberts, west-of-US54 description; neither the rectangle nor its slightly cross-state northern edge is selected as a legal boundary. No survey, exact building centroid, active construction footprint or bounded numerical accuracy is claimed.
- Horizontal uncertainty
Not reported
Community mapper and geocoder provide no bounded horizontal accuracy; coordinate decimal places are not measurement precision.
- Geometry evidence
- 047b4c1b 52580d24 5492ab7f 816746dd 90966722
A locator places the site on the map. It is not a building footprint, a construction extent or a surveyed boundary unless the use scope is an official boundary, and even then it is a parcel or permit boundary.
Evidence
Sources are linked, not redistributed; each keeps its own terms. An archived copy is a lookup for the Wayback Machine capture nearest the retrieval date and may be unavailable or differ from what was reviewed. Each hash states what it covers; imported factual records are not publisher-page captures.
| Title | Publisher | Roles | Published | Retrieved | Licence | Attribution | Content hash (SHA-256) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| El Paso Electric Announces Plans for 366 Megawatt Electric Plant to Support Meta Data Center Archived copy | Construction Reporter Trade publication | Imported: Geometry, Imported: Record, Metric: Land Area, Metric: Power Capacity, Power Source: Natural Gas Onsite, Role: Utility | source-terms-not-recorded | Construction Reporter | 72818f4027cc6b87e4d33775ca744925a4c02e3b19460406fe48a317ce0677e8Factual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| El Paso leaders get update on Meta data center project, city cites enforceable agreements Archived copy | KFOX14 News | Imported: Geometry, Imported: Record, Role: Government | source-terms-not-recorded | KFOX14 | 22762adf8c89e4471439705f414bae037cf7063c160abe9402240a202e705619Factual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| El Paso municipal Meta and Wurldwide campus identity Archived copy | City of El Paso Government record | Geometry identity context, Site distinctness context | not stated | all-rights-reserved | City of El Paso | 0953bb349d8fe57516316f3230fb2abc5a3365b685394f6634703590f3e3a3b5Retained source material; see source provenance | |
| Exact named Meta El Paso Data Center Nominatim point Archived copy | OpenStreetMap contributors via Nominatim OpenStreetMap | Site distinctness context, Geometry | not stated | ODbL-1.0 | OpenStreetMap contributors via Nominatim | ca177512cb6cc28ac6c912853387d38829e10c0899c8cd3eeeeab4ec2fb505c5Retained source material; see source provenance | |
| Meta Announces New Strategic Venture With BlackRock to Develop Data Center in El Paso Archived copy | Meta Platforms Company disclosure | Imported: Record, Imported: Status, Metric: Investment, Metric: Jobs Construction, Metric: Jobs Permanent, Metric: Power Capacity, Milestone: First Operational, Milestone: Other, Role: Developer, Owner claim, Tenant claim | source-terms-not-recorded | Meta Platforms | f3e96c82576b73ccecaa94a909be8fa0612f5394e1bab2bdfa2aafd23cf0ba4bFactual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| Meta El Paso Data Center fact sheet Archived copy | Meta Platforms Company disclosure | Imported: Record, Metric: Investment, Metric: Jobs Construction, Metric: Jobs Permanent, Power Source: Grid, Role: Utility | not stated | source-terms-not-recorded | Meta Platforms | 28d350b94425ab7fef7e4a972c44a45661da8b211b23827e8d0e14ba2b4857a5Factual source record; not the publisher page | |
| Meta El Paso Data Center source object identity and geometry corroboration Archived copy | OpenStreetMap contributors OpenStreetMap | Site distinctness context, Geometry | not stated | ODbL-1.0 | OpenStreetMap contributors | a35838070fa8563610f33c4d955571bef0f2ec1000d5db8baf2baf958590bf44Retained source material; see source provenance | |
| Meta July 28 El Paso physical construction observation Archived copy | Meta Company disclosure | Geometry identity context, Site distinctness context, Physical status | all-rights-reserved | Meta | dca3908508aca7e2125b19f0be9a08f9cb38a0d83f3006a9ed72c52f529b59ecRetained source material; see source provenance | ||
| Meta Ramps Spending On El Paso Data Centre To $10bn Archived copy | Silicon UK Trade publication | Imported: Record, Metric: Investment, Metric: Jobs Construction, Metric: Jobs Permanent, Metric: Power Capacity, Milestone: Construction Started, Milestone: Expansion Announced, Milestone: First Operational | source-terms-not-recorded | Silicon UK | 56b3036860203bd566758df3005ad7cd2bf0daf8d3b3c946d4ba51d86071a41dFactual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| Meta to spend $1.5 billion on AI data center in Texas Archived copy | FOX 26 Houston News | Imported: Record, Metric: Investment, Metric: Jobs Construction, Metric: Jobs Permanent, Metric: Power Capacity, Milestone: Announced, Role: Developer | source-terms-not-recorded | FOX 26 Houston | fa7f27f31c462389807d72863f180d2ba1782896b98315cda7b9fb986fe866b1Factual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| Nominatim object geometry WGS84 datum Archived copy | Nominatim project Company disclosure | Site distinctness context, Geometry | not stated | no-open-license-asserted | Nominatim project | 173fa7a8e032ccee5de4412e19d89149a898ee609c1f069253d78c444b7705a6Retained source material; see source provenance | |
| Nominatim returned point and object reference semantics Archived copy | Nominatim project Company disclosure | Site distinctness context, Geometry | not stated | no-open-license-asserted | Nominatim project | 2b22abff55df61794873a6648149a09a46262c4f409578cb8d6823de3d6b5f7eRetained source material; see source provenance | |
| OpenStreetMap attribution and ODbL terms Archived copy | OpenStreetMap Foundation OpenStreetMap | Site distinctness context, Geometry | not stated | CC-BY-SA-2.0 | OpenStreetMap Foundation | 6fb8c3041dd598f5d63befa6ef01badc313abbb41f76431e374eafb72723fac0Retained source material; see source provenance | |
| TDLR Project Seafox campus registration address Archived copy | Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation Government record | Geometry identity context, Site distinctness context | not stated | all-rights-reserved | Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation | b9b48024caf2b258ff109f3a515aef66827b82eb89c784ce36dd3e8aa5214c3dRetained source material; see source provenance | |
| Texas Electric Utility Only Considered Gas to Power $10 Billion Meta Data Center Archived copy | Inside Climate News News | Imported: Record, Imported: Status, Metric: Power Capacity, Milestone: Other, Power Source: Natural Gas Onsite | source-terms-not-recorded | Inside Climate News | cf9d08b4048f9629958ccbe8791e908de59845318fcf9b12b34ce39bed76d0b6Factual source record; not the publisher page |
Cite this site
Kyars, K. (2026). Meta El Paso Data Center [site vcc-site-f711d13af70d9b633456]. In Data Center Atlas (2026-10-27) [Data set]. https://kiankyars.github.io/datacenter-atlas/sites/vcc-site-f711d13af70d9b633456/
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