Meta ramps up AI infrastructure, commits $1.5 billion to build new gigawatt-scale data center in Texas

Meta has announced that it is bulding a new gigawatt sized data center in Texal in order to advance its AI efforts. The new data center which can scale up to 1GW will be located in El Paso, Texas and will mark the 29th such facility for the company.

The company behind social media giants like Instagram and Facebook says it has designed the El Paso data center to have systems that can support both the traditional servers of today and the future generations of AI enabled hardware.