Meta Building New Gigawatt-Sized Data Center in Texas

Meta Platforms Inc. is building a new gigawatt-sized data center in Texas to advance its artificial intelligence efforts, the latest in a string of significant investments by the company as it looks to keep pace in the competitive AI industry.

The Instagram parent will spend more than $1.5 billion on the new facility, which is being built in El Paso, Texas, the company said in a blog post Wednesday. The data center will eventually have 1 gigawatt of capacity to power high-end computing chips for AI-related projects, according to the post. It’s expected to come online in 2028, a company spokesperson said.