{"id":225895,"date":"2026-03-29T15:10:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T15:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/225895\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T15:10:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T15:10:31","slug":"meta-increases-investment-in-texas-data-center-to-10-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/225895\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta Increases Investment in Texas Data Center to $10 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">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 class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Meta initially announced the data center alongside a commitment to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-10-15\/meta-building-new-gigawatt-sized-data-center-in-texas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">spend $1.5 billion on the project<\/a>, 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","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":225896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[3436,66157,5896,1494,138,140,139,87558,973,2184,87557,87556,3621,27],"class_list":["post-225895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-capital-expenditures","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-construction","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-future-of-work","tag-infrastructure","tag-jobs","tag-mark-elliot-zuckerberg","tag-meta-platforms-inc-class-a","tag-technology","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225895","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=225895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}