Data centers in El Paso County, Texas
El Paso County has 1 data center on the record; it is being built. No county rule about data centers is on the record for El Paso County itself; 1 body inside it has a scorecard row. The latest decision on the record: On August 18, the El Paso City Council voted unanimously 8-0 to send a letter to Governor Abbott regarding the independence of El Paso's power source since it is connected to the Western Grid (El Paso).
How to read this page. Every count comes from the records on this page and links to where it is counted. Nothing is published until a person reads its source, and a figure no source gives reads Not disclosed; nothing is estimated. A rating changes only when a person sets it.
The data center in El Paso County
Every El Paso County record 1 record · blank cell: not disclosed · sort by any column
| Facility and county | Stage | Operator | Power (MW) | Latest entry |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meta El Paso data center El Paso, El Paso County | Being built | Meta | Applications for Meta funding are open until October 6 kfoxtv.com (opens in a new tab) local outlet reported September 15, 2026 |
A blank cell means not disclosed by any source on file. Power is the developer's figure or a permit's, each linked on the record.
| Record | Place | Stage | Operator | MW | Basis | Located | Tier | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meta El Paso data center | El Paso, El Paso | Being built | Meta | centroid | 1 | 2026-10-24 |
Tier 1: an official or company source. Tier 2: a news report resolving to the outlet's own page. Located: a site coordinate from a permit, a parcel or an address, or the county or town centroid. Verified: the last day a person read the source. A blank cell means not disclosed by any source on file.
The cities in El Paso County on the record (1)
| City | Census GEOID | Projects | Rules |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Paso | 4824000 | 1 |
A city without a record is listed, not linked.
What El Paso County has decided 1 body, 2 decisions on the record
What the county and the cities in it have done about data centers: each body on its own row with its rating, open, case by case, restrictive or closed, never good or bad, and every vote, ordinance, moratorium or agreement one tap away, newest first, with its source.
| Body | Level | Rating | In force until | Latest act | Acts | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| El Paso | city | not rated | On August 18, the El Paso City Council voted unanimously 8-0 to send a letter to Governor Abbott regarding the independence of El Paso's power source since it is connected to the Western Grid. spectrumlocalnews.com (opens in a new tab) local outlet Aug 182 acts on this rowEvery act on the El Paso row
| 2 | 2026-08-18 |
A rating rests only on a binding act in force; "not rated" means no person has set one. A blank cell means the record holds nothing for it.
What happened
- spectrumlocalnews.com (opens in a new tab) local outlet
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Scorecard eventEl Paso
kfoxtv.com (opens in a new tab) query feed -
Broke groundMeta El Paso data center
datacenters.atmeta.com (opens in a new tab) primary source
What was said
Roxanne Marquis, AI Infrastructure Strategist, stated that data center site selection is shifting toward power first development, with the critical question now being where infrastructure can become operating capacity on the customer's timeline.
Nearby places with records
Distances run between the centers the Census Bureau gives each place. Every Texas county.
Disclosed figures
nothing disclosed by 1 record
Power, water, jobs and tax
| Figure | Disclosed total | Disclosed | Without a figure | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Power | 0 | 1 | ||
| Water, stated per day | 0 | 1 | ||
| Water, stated per year | 0 | 1 | ||
| Permanent jobs | 0 | 1 | ||
| Tax each year | 0 | 1 |
A blank total means no record disclosed the figure; the count without one says how many.
Summed only where a record disclosed the figure; a record with no figure adds nothing and is counted as not disclosed. Water is summed per day and per year separately, as the sources stated it, and never converted. A tax claim given as a range is summed at both ends.
By what the facilities are for
| Use | Records | Power | Water | Jobs | Tax each year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No stated use | 1 |
A blank cell means no record with that use disclosed the figure.
A record that lists several uses counts once under each. Each cell is the sum over the records with that use, disclosed rows only.
What the facilities are for
No source on file states what any of the 1 tracked facility in El Paso County is for.
How the facilities are cooled
| Method | Facilities | Share of facilities |
|---|---|---|
| Closed loop liquid | 1 | 100% |
About this data
Report a correction · Send a tip about El Paso County · The rows here are part of the Texas export.
Cite this page
Data Center Record, "Data center records in El Paso County, Texas", https://datacenterrecord.org/states/tx/el-paso-county. Data: Data Center Record, datacenterrecord.org, CC BY-NC 4.0.
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For researchers
- Level
- county
- Census GEOID
- 48141
- Census geography
- County, El Paso County
- Rating
- Not rated