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Meta announced site ↓ Meta El Paso data center, Texas Meta announced on 15 October 2025 that it was breaking ground on an AI-focused data center in El Paso, Texas, that "can scale to a 1GW data center site", with an initial phase investment of more than $1.5 billion. Copy claim link
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Date 2025-10-15 · announcement Figure measures not stated by the source Stated dates (targets and terms, not events) construction start stated: 2025-10-15 Stage announced Amount more than · $1,500,000,000 Quantity up to · 1 GW (as worded: "can scale to a 1GW data center site") Scope and limits Groundbreaking and an investment for the initial phase as stated; 1GW is a stated potential, and the basis of the figure is not stated.
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Breaking Ground on Our New AI-Optimized Data Center in El Paso ↗ Meta (Meta Newsroom) · 2025-10-15
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Paraphrase El Paso, Texas, will be home to Meta's newest AI-focused data center.
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Source details and check notes Authors Meta (Meta Newsroom) Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 9c077133a54b1d0320db2b326c200591c1e2568039c9844a01ccd17bb5d75d55). Newsroom post as served on 2026-10-28, carrying the original text of 15 October 2025 ("Originally published on October 15, 2025 at 9:00AM PT"), a same-day clarification and an "Update on March 26, 2026". Each record names the layer it quotes. Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 4a9a7572c1a04c07ebb4c6a5ee5d6a7d525fb5eaa6fb9f0da6fc48eca16cb083). Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-28 Language English (en) Attribution Meta (Meta Newsroom), “Breaking Ground on Our New AI-Optimized Data Center in El Paso”, 2025-10-15. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, compute, power and orbit (research/compute-power-orbit). The paraphrase is Selekoa’s, written from the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28; it is not a quotation and was not machine-matched. The cross-family check found it faithful. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-29/30, item 12) answered the record’s question blind from fresh retrievals and agreed with the record. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
Breaking Ground on Our New AI-Optimized Data Center in El Paso ↗ Meta (Meta Newsroom) · 2025-10-15
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Source excerpt “We’re breaking ground on a new, cutting-edge AI-focused data center that can scale to a 1GW data center site.” Location in source original text of 15 October 2025, paragraph 1
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Source details and check notes Authors Meta (Meta Newsroom) Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 9c077133a54b1d0320db2b326c200591c1e2568039c9844a01ccd17bb5d75d55). Newsroom post as served on 2026-10-28, carrying the original text of 15 October 2025 ("Originally published on October 15, 2025 at 9:00AM PT"), a same-day clarification and an "Update on March 26, 2026". Each record names the layer it quotes. Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 4a9a7572c1a04c07ebb4c6a5ee5d6a7d525fb5eaa6fb9f0da6fc48eca16cb083). Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-28 Language English (en) Attribution Meta (Meta Newsroom), “Breaking Ground on Our New AI-Optimized Data Center in El Paso”, 2025-10-15. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, compute, power and orbit (research/compute-power-orbit). The quotation (19 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 and again at admission on 2026-10-30, in a fresh retrieval (SHA-256 4a9a7572c1a04c07ebb4c6a5ee5d6a7d525fb5eaa6fb9f0da6fc48eca16cb083; the bytes differ from the pack’s retrieval). Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-29/30, item 12) answered the record’s question blind from fresh retrievals and agreed with the record. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
Breaking Ground on Our New AI-Optimized Data Center in El Paso ↗ Meta (Meta Newsroom) · 2025-10-15
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Source excerpt “Once the initial phase is completed, the first facilities will represent an investment of more than $1.5 billion” Location in source original text, final paragraph
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Source details and check notes Authors Meta (Meta Newsroom) Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 9c077133a54b1d0320db2b326c200591c1e2568039c9844a01ccd17bb5d75d55). Newsroom post as served on 2026-10-28, carrying the original text of 15 October 2025 ("Originally published on October 15, 2025 at 9:00AM PT"), a same-day clarification and an "Update on March 26, 2026". Each record names the layer it quotes. Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 4a9a7572c1a04c07ebb4c6a5ee5d6a7d525fb5eaa6fb9f0da6fc48eca16cb083). Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-28 Language English (en) Attribution Meta (Meta Newsroom), “Breaking Ground on Our New AI-Optimized Data Center in El Paso”, 2025-10-15. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, compute, power and orbit (research/compute-power-orbit). The quotation (18 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 and again at admission on 2026-10-30, in a fresh retrieval (SHA-256 4a9a7572c1a04c07ebb4c6a5ee5d6a7d525fb5eaa6fb9f0da6fc48eca16cb083; the bytes differ from the pack’s retrieval). Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-29/30, item 12) answered the record’s question blind from fresh retrievals and agreed with the record. No human editorial review. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
Relation. A party announced a data-centre site, campus or other infrastructure, dated by the announcement. An announcement is not construction, operation, ownership or a contract.
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