{"id":221989,"date":"2026-03-26T20:46:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/221989\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T20:46:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:46:33","slug":"meta-increases-investment-in-el-paso-data-center-to-10-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/221989\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta Increases Investment in El Paso Data Center to $10 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms Inc. will spend more than $10 billion to develop a data center in El Paso, Texas, a jump from prior projections and the latest in a series of major investments focused on the infrastructure needed to support its artificial intelligence ambitions. <\/p>\n<p>Meta initially announced the data center alongside a commitment to spend $1.5 billion on the project, but said in a blog post Thursday that it was increasing its investment. The gigawatt-sized data center is expected to come online in 2028, and will support more than 300 on-site jobs once completed, Meta said. <\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774557993_573_.jpeg\" data-size=\"embedded\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p>Construction at Meta\u2019s data center project in El Paso, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Meta<\/p>\n<p>Meta also said &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meta Platforms Inc. will spend more than $10 billion to develop a data center in El Paso, Texas,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[3436,138,140,139,958,86395],"class_list":["post-221989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-infrastructure-funding","tag-temporary-workers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}