Meta: El Paso Campus

Meta is building the campus on former city land off Stan Roberts Sr. Avenue in northeast El Paso, near the Texas-New Mexico state line. The plan calls for 10 data center buildings and a network building, plus administration and warehouse buildings and five on-site substations. Meta designed the buildings for AI workloads with closed-loop liquid cooling. El Paso Water caps the campus's water use at 2.5 million gallons a day.

El Paso Electric serves the first phase from its existing system and is building new 345 kV substations and transmission lines for the rest. Until those lines are in service, the utility plans a 366 MW natural-gas plant beside the campus, built and run by Enchanted Rock. Meta pays the plant's cost during that bridge period, and Texas regulators were still reviewing the plant in November 2026.

In July 2026 Meta formed a joint venture with funds managed by BlackRock's Global Infrastructure Partners and HPS to own the campus. Meta keeps a 20% stake and leases the buildings, and the venture sold more than $12 billion of notes to fund construction.

Campus History

• July 2026: Meta and BlackRock-managed funds form the joint venture that owns the campus.
• March 2026: Meta raises its planned investment in the campus to more than $10 billion, up from an early estimate of $1.5 billion.
• October 2025: Meta breaks ground.
• December 2023: El Paso City Council approves the sale of about 1,039 acres of city land to Wurldwide LLC, Meta's development entity, and an incentive agreement.