Meta El Paso Building 1 is a data center operated by Meta in El Paso, TX, US. It carries a reported power capacity of 75.0 MW and is currently under construction. It sits in the El Paso data-center market on the WECC grid, which DC Hub's Data Center Power Index currently rates CAUTION, with an estimated 41.3-month time-to-power. The market shows mixed signals — validate live grid headroom and queue depth before committing capacity.
Data Center Power Index verdict for El Paso — the market this facility sits in.
Full DCPI breakdown →DC Hub analyst read on El Paso — the market this facility sits in (full deep-dive →).
El Paso's data center ecosystem remains dominated by Meta's sprawling footprint across 9 tracked facilities, anchoring a 2,673 MW regional installed base spread across 18 sites. The market is characterized by extreme operator concentration—Meta controls roughly half the tracked capacity—with secondary players including CenturyLink El Paso 2 facilities and fragmented MDC Data Centers holdings comprising the remainder. This oligopolistic structure reflects the region's historical appeal as a low-cost, power-abundant location, though recent infrastructure pressures have begun reshaping that calculus. The DCPI verdict of CAUTION warrants careful attention from both acquisition-focused and brownfield development investors. An excess-power score of 69/100 initially suggests healthy headroom, but the constraint index of 52/100 signals emerging bottlenecks—likely transmission or water-cooling…
Published DC Hub data for this location.
Comparable facilities in El Paso tracked by DC Hub — compare power, operators, and grid context across the market.
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