Projects
Meta El Paso data center campus
El Paso, El Paso County
1,000 acres · for Meta
🕒 July 28, 2026: Meta and BlackRock announced a joint venture to own and pay for the campus. Meta will be…
ProposedFort Bliss Army data center (Carlyle)
El Paso, El Paso County
1,384 acres
🕒 May 21, 2026: U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar wrote to the Secretary of the Army asking for more openness. …
Local votes and rules
📌 Other · El Paso
El Paso City Council unanimously approved its first Data Center Policy Framework. Future very large (hyperscale) data centers will need a special permit with a public hearing and a City Council vote. The city will not give local tax breaks to new hyperscale data centers and will ask for community benefit deals instead. It does not apply to the Meta data center already being built in Northeast El Paso.
🤝 Agreement with the company · El Paso
After nearly 200 public comments, El Paso City Council voted 5-3 against starting talks to end the city's 2023 incentive deal with Meta for its data center in Northeast El Paso. The mayor said ending a binding contract would put taxpayers at risk.
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