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Meta / BlackRock El Paso AI Data Center Campus

Meta / BlackRock El Paso AI Data Center Campus is an AI data center campus developed by Meta in Texas, El Paso. 1 GW of capacity has been announced; none is energized yet. The gap is what this page tracks: what is claimed versus what is actually built, each figure dated and sourced.

Under construction · Meta · Private land · WECC · El Paso, Texas, United States

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Capacity: announced vs energized

Under construction
not recorded

Announced-to-energized gap: 1 GW. Every figure below is a single dated, sourced claim. Current best per series resolves by evidence tier, then date. See the methodology.

45th-largest announced of 109 tracked campuses45th by energized capacity62th percentile announced-to-energized gap≈ 810,000 homes of power at full announced capacity (basis)

Promised online: 2028. 26 months away. Claimed by Meta / BlackRock (source).

Meta / BlackRock El Paso AI Data Center Campus capacity claims
Source
Announced1 GW2026-07-28verifiedpress release
Contracted1 GW2026-07-28reportedutility filing
Energized0 GW2026-07-28verifiedpress release

Key facts

under construction

Lifecycle

1 GW

Announced

0 GW

Energized

Meta

Developer

United States

Location

WECC

Grid

private land

Land

3

Facilities tracked

Reported facts

Structured facts sourced from citations already on this record. Each fact traces to a source in the References section below.

Capacity (company-claimed)
1 GW, under construction; capacity online from 2028; Meta sole occupant
Ownership
BlackRock funds 80%; Meta 20%
Development cost (company-claimed)
About $14B
Lease (company-claimed)
Meta leases the whole campus: four-year term plus options up to about 20 years
Jobs (company-claimed)
4,000+ construction jobs at peak; 300 operational
Grid
El Paso Electric, WECC (not ERCOT)
Gas plant ruling (state judges, Sep 2026)
PUCT judges said El Paso Electric's 366 MW McCloud gas plant for the campus should be approved only if other customers never pay its costs. Commission order expected by Dec 7 2026.

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The story of Meta / BlackRock El Paso AI Data Center Campus
Announced capex
$14B
Jobs
300 permanent reported
Derived
Cost per MW
$14M/MW
Cost per job
$47M per permanent job

Every figure is one row in the ledger below with its source. Derived rows are pure arithmetic on the rows above (not new claims). Absent lines mean the fact isn't on record yet.

In clusterTexas(611)

The deal

financier
BlackRock (managed funds) · Owns 80% of the venture; ~$4.9B cash contribution plus $12.5B debt financing
utility
El Paso Electric · Grid supplier, up to 1.0 GW (WECC region)
developer
Meta · Built the campus; retains 20% of the venture and leases capacity back (4-year initial term, up to ~20 years)
financier
Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) · BlackRock unit; part of the 80% JV capital
financier
HPS Investment Partners · BlackRock unit; part of the JV financing

Power

Power source
mixed
Grid operator
WECC
Interconnection

El Paso Electric grid supply, 1 GW grid interconnect, Announced. Up to 1.0 GW committed, right to request up to 1.4 GW; El Paso Electric is a WECC utility

Proposed on-site natural gas plant, 0.37 GW gas, Announced. Meta-proposed dedicated ~366 MW gas plant

County water status: No drought in El Paso County, week of 2026-11-03 (US Drought Monitor). Data centers are large water users for cooling; this is the neutral local water picture.

Why here

Meta / BlackRock El Paso AI Data Center Campus sits on private land in Texas, El Paso. It connects to the WECC grid, draws on mixed power. This siting summary is composed from the record's held fields, not speculation; see methodology.

Financial structure

Meta construction and development investment
$10B. Over $10B press release
Total venture development cost
$14B. Approximately $14B for buildings and infrastructure press release
BlackRock cash contribution at close
$4.9B. 80% JV interest; funded partly by $12.5B debt financing press release
Senior secured notes (Sopaipilla Investor LLC)
$12.5B. ~$12.5B of senior secured notes priced 2026-07-27 to fund the project journalist report

Regulatory paper trail

The filings and rules on record for this site and its jurisdiction, most recent first. Each is a sourced, dated artifact you can follow to the primary document.

Investment, workforce and specs

Capex
$10B source
Construction jobs
4,000 source
Permanent jobs
300 source

Facilities at this campus

Timeline

  2. Aug 2026
    party added
    financier: HPS Investment Partners
  3. Nov 2026
    Current: Under construction

Sources

cca163a4-35f9-4342-b4fa-2e44ddfbd03a · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Every term is defined in the glossary. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.

Head-to-head

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Common questions

What is Meta / BlackRock El Paso AI Data Center Campus?
Meta / BlackRock El Paso AI Data Center Campus is an AI data center campus tracked on the DEPLOY registry, located in El Paso. DEPLOY records its capacity as a dated, sourced ledger: announced gigawatts versus actually energized gigawatts, never a press-release total.
How much power will Meta / BlackRock El Paso AI Data Center Campus use?
Meta / BlackRock El Paso AI Data Center Campus has 1 GW of announced capacity on the DEPLOY registry, of which 0 GW is recorded as energized, an announced-to-energized gap of 1 GW. Each figure is individually dated and sourced.
Who is building Meta / BlackRock El Paso AI Data Center Campus?
Meta is recorded as a party to Meta / BlackRock El Paso AI Data Center Campus on the DEPLOY registry. The full party list, with each role, is on the record.
Is Meta / BlackRock El Paso AI Data Center Campus operating yet?
As of the most recent verification on the DEPLOY registry, Meta / BlackRock El Paso AI Data Center Campus is under construction. DEPLOY tracks the lifecycle from announced through energized, so the current state reflects sourced evidence, not the original announcement.
How verified is the data on Meta / BlackRock El Paso AI Data Center Campus?
This record has been checked against its cited sources by automated agents for the indexed registry; it has not been individually reviewed by a person. Every capacity figure is an append-only, dated claim resolved to the highest-evidence tier; superseded claims are kept but excluded from the current view.

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DEPLOY. (2026). Meta / BlackRock El Paso AI Data Center Campus: AI data center campus record. Retrieved November 11, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/meta-blackrock-el-paso-texas

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