{"id":999565,"date":"2026-03-27T07:51:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T02:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=999565"},"modified":"2026-03-27T10:00:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T04:30:44","slug":"meta-boosts-texas-ai-data-centre-investment-to-10-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/27\/meta-boosts-texas-ai-data-centre-investment-to-10-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta boosts Texas AI data centre investment to $10 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta said on Thursday it is increasing investment in its El Paso, Texas AI data center to $10 billion, a more than sixfold jump, as it aims to hit 1-gigawatt capacity ahead \u200cof the \u2060facility&#8217;s \u2060projected opening in 2028. <\/p>\n<p>The social media giant in October had committed an investment of $1.5 billion in the El Paso data center, its 29th such facility globally and third in Texas. <\/p>\n<p>Big Tech firms such as Meta, Amazon, Alphabet , and Microsoft have been racing to build AI infrastructure and are \u2060projected to \u200cspend over $630 billion to build AI infrastructure this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta said on Thursday it is increasing investment in its El Paso, Texas AI data center to $10 billion, a more than sixfold jump, as it aims to hit 1-gigawatt capacity ahead \u200cof the \u2060facility&#8217;s \u2060projected opening in 2028. The social media giant in October had committed an investment of $1.5 billion in the El Paso data center, its 29th such facility globally and third in Texas. Big Tech firms such as Meta, Amazon, Alphabet , and Microsoft have been racing to build AI infrastructure and are \u2060projected to \u200cspend over $630 billion to build AI infrastructure this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}