El Paso, Texas, will be home to Meta’s newest artificial intelligence-focused data center, which can scale to a 1-gigawatt data center site, the Facebook parent company said on Oct. 15.
“This is our third data center in Texas, and altogether, these three data centers have supported thousands of jobs for skilled workers in the state. In total, Meta has invested over $10 billion in Texas and has more than 2,500 full-time employees across the state between our data centers, offices, and research lab,” Meta said.
Meta said it plans to use a closed-loop, liquid-cooled system in this data center that will use zero water for a majority of the year. “We’ve also set an ambitious goal for ourselves – we aim to be water positive in 2030, meaning we’ll restore more water than we consume. And in El Paso, will restore 200% of the water consumed by our El Paso Data Center to local watersheds,” it said.
To meet this goal, it has partnered with local organizations to support water restoration projects that benefit the local community.
“Our El Paso data center’s electricity use will be matched with 100% clean and renewable energy. And through our agreement with El Paso Electric, we’ve paid for new grid infrastructure required to connect the data center, including new transmission lines and substations,” Meta said.
