Who owns Meta El Paso Data Center?

Meta El Paso Data Center is owned and operated by Meta Platforms, Inc..

How much power does Meta El Paso Data Center use?

Meta El Paso Data Center has a reported power capacity of 1,000 MW.

Has Meta El Paso Data Center had environmental violations?

As of the latest EPA ECHO sync, no enforcement actions are on record for Meta El Paso Data Center.

Where is Meta El Paso Data Center located?

Meta El Paso Data Center is in El Paso, El Paso County, TX.

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Meta El Paso Data Center

Q: What do data center tax breaks cost in Texas?

Texas reported $16.1M in Property used in certain large data center projects; temporary exemption (Texas Tax Code § 151.3595) for FY2025 (Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts). That is a statewide program figure, not attributable to one site.

El Paso, El Paso County, TX

Source: Primary source

Meta El Paso Data Center is a under construction data center in El Paso County, TX, operated by Meta Platforms, Inc.. DataCentersExposed has documented 1,000 MW of reported power capacity at this site.

Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated Jun 13, 2026

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Power

1,000 MW

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Dot size = disclosed capacity (MW). Smallest = undisclosed, not small.

Overview

source: link

Meta proposes $10B El Paso data center with water and grid pledges as city council weighs incentives. Announced investment: $10.0B. Discovered from news coverage and promoted after review; details to be enriched from primary sources.

Operator chain

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Meta Platforms, Inc.
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Meta El Paso Data Center

In the news

source: Google News

Tax breaks & subsidies

source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77

These tax breaks are recorded to Meta Platforms, Inc. (the operator/parent) and may cover this or other sites — no state names the recipient at the facility level.

Dollar value not disclosed for this record.

Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
State of Texas · granted 2022 · term — yr · source

Statewide cost of this incentive

Texas reported $16.1M in Property used in certain large data center projects; temporary exemption (Texas Tax Code § 151.3595) for FY2025 (Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts). Program-wide, not attributable to this site.

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Water use

Modeled estimate~18.8M gpd

Direct (onsite cooling)

~10.1M gpd

Indirect (its electricity)

~8.6M gpd

No measured record exists, so this is a low-confidence model from 1,000 MW (disclosed IT power): 2 L/kWh cooling (hot climate) + 0.45 gal/kWh embedded in US grid average. How we estimate. Have a utility document? Send it and we'll replace this with the real figure.

EPA permits & violations

source: EPA ECHO

No reported violations as of last sync.

Nearest school

source: HIFLD / NCES

The nearest public school, Triumph Public High Schools-El Paso West in El Paso, is 0.2 mi from this site (79 students). 5 public schools sit within a mile of the site.

Schools are sensitive receptors for the noise, backup-generator exhaust, and traffic a large data center brings. Straight-line distance to the nearest public school (HIFLD/NCES, US public schools only).

Hearings timeline

No public-hearing records linked to this site yet. We surface planning-commission and board-of-supervisors dates when a record names a facility. If you know of a hearing on this site, tell us.