Data center profile · Stan Roberts Sr. Avenue at U.S. 54, northeast El Paso, El Paso County, Texas

Meta El Paso (Project McCloud)

Meta's roughly 1 GW campus in northeast El Paso; BlackRock funds to own 80% (venture not closed); 366 MW utility-owned gas plant awaits state approval.

Under construction, gas plant pending. Construction is under way, with over 2,300 workers on site in July 2026; the grid tariff is approved. State judges recommended approving the 366 MW gas plant only if other ratepayers are protected from its cost; the final order pending.
The site, Satellite image, Jan. 14, 2024
1 GW
campus capacity, Meta's figure
potentially 1 GW by 2029; no IT capacity figure is in the regulatory record
366 MW
gas plant for the first phase, utility-owned
813 modular units; PUC approval pending
~$14B
total development cost (venture)
Meta first said $1.5B (Oct. 2025), then $10B (Mar. 2026, press)
1,039 acres
site bought from the city
sale closed Apr. 18, 2024
OperatorMeta (builds and manages the campus for a Meta-BlackRock venture)
CustomerMeta, sole tenant on leases covering the whole campus
Planned IT capacity800 MW at full build-out (our estimate from the company or utility power figure)
First building in serviceOur estimate: 2027 (range 2026 to 2028); company says 2027.
Next deadlineDec. 2026: Final Texas PUC vote on the gas plant, expected by Dec. 2026 (press)
From orbit

The site from above

Satellite overview1
Satellite image, Jan. 14, 2024.
From orbit

The site

Latest clear satellite view, Jan. 14, 2024.

The site
Satellite image, Jan. 14, 2024
Quarter by quarter

Watch the site change

One clear satellite frame per quarter, January 2025 to October 2026. Drag the slider or press play.

Satellite view of the campus, Oct. 11, 2026

Sentinel-2 satellite, 10 m resolution (coarser than the photos above).
Power

Power and the grid

None energized or contracted yet

El Paso Electric grid service, first blockTariff approved
220 MW
rates approved July 31, 2025 on about 220 MW of expected load; El Paso Electric builds an adjacent substation Utility regulator · Dec. 2025
McCloud gas plant (utility-owned, behind the meter)Needs commission approval
366 MW
813 Enchanted Rock units; due Q1 2027; not connected to the grid for up to 5 years; Meta covers the cost during that bridge period (press) Utility regulator · Dec. 2025
Full campus powerNot yet specified
1,000 MW
Meta says up to 1 GW; the remaining supply is not on record Utility regulator · Dec. 2025
ApprovedProposed

Getting on the grid

Who supplies what, what it costs, and what is still not public.

  1. Aug. 1, 2024
    Utility files a special data-center rate
    El Paso Electric asks the state for a new economic development rate to serve the data center, expecting 100 to 200 MW of steady load. Utility regulator · Aug. 2024
  2. July 31, 2025
    State approves the rate
    The Texas PUC approves the large and medium development rates by agreement, with an 80% minimum demand charge and a term of up to 5 years. see Permits
  3. Dec. 8, 2025
    Gas plant application filed
    El Paso Electric asks to build the 366 MW McCloud plant, dedicated to Meta's subsidiary; it would not be connected to the transmission grid at first. Utility regulator · Dec. 2025
  4. Sept. 23, 2026
    Judges' recommendation
    State judges recommend approval only if all other customers are held harmless from the plant's costs; otherwise denial. Utility regulator · Sept. 2026
  5. Jan. 2027
    Plant due online
    The new generation is expected to be operational by Q1 2027. Utility regulator · Dec. 2025
Is it running?

Evidence from space

NO2 over the site, net of the rural background, was about the same in July–September 2026 (15 µmol/m²) as a year earlier (16), and the rural background stayed flat (about 16 both summers). The satellite sees no new combustion large enough to stand out here. On record here: McCloud gas plant (utility-owned, behind the meter), 366 MW, proposed. No rise fits a plant that is not running yet, or runs little; it does not prove either.

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NO2 over the campus and over open country (µmol/m²)
050100150Jan 2025AprJulOctJan 2026AprJulOctOver the campusOpen country
050100150Jan 2025JulJan 2026JulOver the campusOpen country
Lines: 7-day (daily) / 3-week (weekly) averages; gaps from cloud filled by straight-line interpolation; dots are raw readings. Shaded: July–September 2025 and 2026, averaging 16 and 15 µmol/m² above open country (0.9×).

What else could explain it

How this works: the Sentinel-5P satellite measures NO2 in the air over every point on Earth once a day, around 1:30 p.m. local time, in pixels about 5.5 by 3.5 km. NO2 comes from burning fuel (turbines, engines, traffic, power plants), so a rise over a site that open country does not share points to new combustion there. It shows combustion activity, not megawatts. The site box is about 15 km across; the background box is open country about 75 km away. We use only high-quality readings and drop days or weeks when cloud hides more than half of either box. Data: Copernicus Sentinel-5P (ESA), processed with the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem Sentinel Hub statistics service.

Permits

Permits checklist

3 pending · 6 granted

Most local approvals date from Dec. 2023; the gas plant is the open item.

Risks

What could slow it down

Lawsuits

1 case on record

Money

Money on record

~$14B
development cost of the venture campus
BlackRock funds 80%, Meta 20%; Meta says the buildings and long-lived power, cooling and connectivity are included Company · July 2026
$12.5B
debt financing behind BlackRock's share
a $12.6B private offering was reported on July 31, 2026 Company · Oct. 2026
$13B
Meta's residual value guarantee
aggregate threshold, decreasing over time; leases run 4 years with four extension options Company · July 2026
80%
city and county property tax abatement and grants
per phase for 10 years plus 15 years of grants; city and county each; $800M investment and 50 jobs required Local government · Dec. 2023
$551.8M
estimated cost of the McCloud plant
utility estimate; the city asked for a $565.6M cap and was declined News report · Oct. 2026
$1.48B
El Paso assets Meta holds for sale
mostly construction in progress and land; to be contributed to the venture SEC filing · July 2026
Timeline

What happened, and what is due

SitePaper trailConstructionPowerPermitsMoneyLegalUpcoming
  1. Nov. 21, 2023
    Permits City creates a tax reinvestment zone over the site. Local government · Dec. 2023
  2. Nov. 30, 2023
    Paper trail Wurldwide LLC registered in Texas
  3. Dec. 5, 2023
    Site City approves the land sale, zoning, tax abatement and grant agreements with Wurldwide LLC, later identified as Meta's subsidiary. Local government · Dec. 2023
  4. April 18, 2024
    Site The land sale closes. Local government · April 2026
  5. July 31, 2025
    Power Texas PUC approves the economic development electric rate. Utility regulator · July 2025
  6. Oct. 15, 2025
    Construction Meta publicly announces the campus and breaks ground. Company · Oct. 2026
  7. Dec. 8, 2025
    Power El Paso Electric files for approval of the 366 MW gas plant. Utility regulator · Dec. 2025
  8. March 2026
    Money Meta raises its stated investment from $1.5B to $10B (press). News report · Oct. 2026
  9. May 26, 2026
    Permits City council votes unanimously to stop incentivizing future data centers (existing Meta agreements unaffected, press). News report · June 2026
  10. July 8, 2026
    Permits State administrative hearing on the gas plant is held. Utility regulator · Sept. 2026
  11. July 28, 2026
    Money Meta and BlackRock announce an 80/20 venture to finance about $14B of development. Company · July 2026
  12. Sept. 21, 2026
    Permits Texas governor orders a statewide pause on data-center permits at the environmental agency (press); existing air permits predate it. News report · Oct. 2026
  13. Sept. 23, 2026
    Permits State judges recommend approving the gas plant only with a hold-harmless condition for other customers. Utility regulator · Sept. 2026
  14. Dec. 2026
    Permits Final PUC vote on the gas plant expected (press). Utility regulator · Sept. 2026
  15. March 2027
    Power McCloud gas plant due to be operational (first quarter of 2027). Utility regulator · Dec. 2025
Construction activity

Building activity by quarter

Since Jan. 2022: 2 FAA filings (July 2025 to Oct. 2026): tallest permanent tower 85 ft (filed Oct. 2026) and tallest crane 350 ft (July 2025); 31 satellite captures.

FAA filings
Satellite
’22
’23
’24
’25
’26
Dot size: records in the quarter, largest = 2. Two-digit years mark each first quarter.
The buildings

Specs

~1.2M sq ft first campus
Meta's Oct. 2025 description; a later filing for 12 more buildings on ~600 acres (press)
Company · Oct. 2025
4,000 construction jobs, 300 permanent
Meta's figures, July 2026
Company · July 2026
Who is involved

Owners, partners and builders

Owners and developers
  • Meta Platforms: 20% venture owner, sole tenant, builder and manager
  • Wurldwide LLC: Meta subsidiary that owns the land and holds the incentives
  • BlackRock funds, with Global Infrastructure Partners and HPS: 80% venture owner
Power and utilities
  • El Paso Electric: utility and owner of the McCloud plant
  • Enchanted Rock: supplier and operator of the 813 generators
  • El Paso Water: water and sewer service
Builders
  • JE Dunn Construction and Hensel Phelps: general contractors per Meta
  • Olsson and Stantec: engineers on plat and expansion filings
Government
  • City of El Paso and El Paso County: land seller and incentive grantors; the city is an intervenor against the plant
  • Public Utility Commission of Texas: decides the plant certificate
Opponents
  • Sembrando Esperanza Coalition: wants the Meta contracts terminated (press)
Still unknown

Open questions

Where this comes from

373 records from 44 documents

Drawn from news reports, local government records, utility regulator dockets, business registries, state agency records, company statements, public and commercial datasets, securities filings and satellite captures, each kept with its date and source. The bar shows documents by type.

News report 13Local government 7Utility regulator 6State agency 6Company 4Dataset 4SEC filing 4Satellite 1
Evidence

Every quote behind this page

Grade key: A = the primary record itself (permit, filing, exhibit) · B = a dated official statement · C = news reporting. Map distances are our own measurements on OpenStreetMap and carry no grade. Allegations in lawsuits are marked as such in the quotes.

Power (37)
  • EPE filed for a High Load Factor Large Power Service tariff (Docket 59611) - the prospective long-term service tariff for the campus; the ALJs later declined to lock Wurldwide into it as a CCN condition
    “Application of El Paso Electric Company for Approval of a High Load Factor Large Power Service Tariff; Application (Apr. 7, 2026) (pending)”
    Utility regulator · Oct. 2026 · grade A
  • Intervenor challenge in Docket 59076: at constant baseload operation the modular units' 50,000-hour service life implies roughly 5.7-10 years of life, contradicting EPE's 20-year service-life assumption behind the $551.8
    “if it ran the generators every hour per year (8,760 hours), as authorized by its air permit, the expected lifetime would be only 5.7 years”
    Utility regulator · Oct. 2026 · grade A
  • Aliases: Project McCloud; Seafox; El Paso Datacenter - EGUs (TCEQ permit name)
    “For purposes of the TCEQ Standard Air Permit, McCloud Generation is referred to as El Paso Datacenter - EGUs”
    Utility regulator · Sept. 2026 · grade A
  • Utility: El Paso Electric Company (EPE), CCN No. 30050; operates solely outside ERCOT (Western Interconnection)
    “EPE holds certificate of convenience and necessity (CCN) number 30050 to provide service to the public”
    Utility regulator · Sept. 2026 · grade A
  • Grid region: Western Interconnection - EPE operates solely outside the ERCOT region; no ERCOT interconnection queue applies
    “EPE operates solely outside of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas region”
    Utility regulator · Sept. 2026 · grade A
  • Utility service: 220 MW
    “The original 220 MW, now called "Region 1," is expected to reach full load in 2027”
    Utility regulator · Dec. 2025 · grade A
  • Utility service: 1,000 MW
    “Wurldwide has been in discussion with EPE regarding plans to increase load substantially - up to a peak of over 440 MW by 2027, and potentially 1 GW (1,000 MW) by 2029.”
    Utility regulator · Dec. 2025 · grade A
  • Interconnection status: EPE-served, Western Interconnection (NOT ERCOT, no ISO queue): Region 1 (220 MW) rate-approved in PUCT Docket No. 56903 (Order Jul 31, 2025; Schedules 33A/33B economic development rates created fo
    “Beginning in 2027 and extending through the initial term of operation of the facility (referred to as the "bridge period"), McCloud Generation will be electrically connected with the customer's load but will not be interconnected with the EPE transmission system.”
    Utility regulator · Dec. 2025 · grade A
  • Code names: Project McCloud
    “a new 366-megawatt (MW) natural gas generation facility which will be called the McCloud Generation Project”
    Utility regulator · Dec. 2025 · grade A
  • Stated campus size: 1,000 MW
    “potentially 1 GW (1,000 MW) by 2029”
    Utility regulator · Dec. 2025 · grade A
  • Utility service: 220 MW
    “The original load ramp expectation for Wurldwide Data Center was approximately 220 MW”
    Utility regulator · Dec. 2025 · grade A
  • On-site generation: 366 MW
    “813 modular gas generators, each producing peak capacity of 450 kW”
    Utility regulator · Dec. 2025 · grade A
  • Power plan: hybrid - EPE grid service for Region 1 (220 MW) plus islanded behind-the-meter utility-owned gas generation (McCloud, 366 MW) for Region 2 during a bridge period of up to 5 years from 2027; campus load not in
    “McCloud Generation will be electrically connected with the customer's load but will not be interconnected with the EPE transmission system”
    Utility regulator · Dec. 2025 · grade A
  • Target date generation: 2027-Q1 (McCloud Generation expected operational)
    “The new generation is expected to be operational by the first quarter of 2027”
    Utility regulator · Dec. 2025 · grade A
  • large load interconnection request: approved
    “Application of El Paso Electric Company for an Economic Development Rate for a New Data Center to be Located in El Paso Texas, Docket No. 56903, Order (July 31, 2025)”
    Utility regulator · Dec. 2025 · grade A
  • large load interconnection request: CCN amendment application filed
    “McCloud Generation will initially be dedicated to supply capacity and energy to a single Texas retail customer - Wurldwide LLC (the Wurldwide Data Center).”
    Utility regulator · Dec. 2025 · grade A
  • Utility service: >100 (expected peak demand once fully operational; load factor >90%) MW
    “Once fully operational, the data center is expected to operate with a peak demand of over 100 megawatts (MW) and an annual load factor over 90%.”
    Utility regulator · July 2025 · grade A
  • Substation: New EPE-owned substation adjacent to the facility, at transmission voltage (name not stated); site in northeast El Paso near EPE Newman Power Station
    “El Paso Electric will construct and own a new substation adjacent to the facility which will interconnect with El Paso Electric's transmission system”
    Utility regulator · July 2025 · grade A
  • Rate class: EPE Rate Schedule 33A (large EDR, demand >50,000 kW, steady state) and 33B (medium EDR, 600-50,000 kW, development phase); transmission voltage
    “33B will apply during the development phase (demand between 600kW and 50,000kW) and Schedule No. 33A will apply during the steady state phase (demand above 50,000kW)”
    Utility regulator · July 2025 · grade A
  • Utility service: 100-200 (steady-state peak load forecast; development phase 1-50 MW)
    “the load will steadily increase each month until it reaches the steady state of between 100 and 200 MW peak load”
    Utility regulator · Aug. 2024 · grade A
  • Annual energy stated: ~1323 GWh/yr
    “EPE estimated a 481 MW PV system will provide the nearly 1,323 gigawatt-hours of annual energy requirement of Wurldwide' s data center facility”
    Utility regulator · Aug. 2024 · grade A
  • Nearest power line of 345 kV or more: 0.77 km
    Measured on OpenStreetMap map data.
    OpenStreetMap · Oct. 2026
  • Nearest substation of 345 kV or more: 6.66 km
    Measured on OpenStreetMap map data.
    OpenStreetMap · Oct. 2026
  • Nearest gas pipeline: 4.18 km
    Measured on OpenStreetMap map data.
    OpenStreetMap · Oct. 2026
  • IT capacity: not stated
    “Documented absence: no IT-load figure appears in any primary document opened (PUCT application and PFD, Meta announcements, city/county agreements). Meta states only 1 GW of compute capacity; the regulatory record carries total campus peak demand only.”
    Utility regulator · Oct. 2026 · grade B
  • Third party filing mention: El Paso gas-plant proceeding
    “In Texas, the El Paso City Council is intervening in a regulatory proceeding for the approval of new gas plants to power Meta's data center”
    SEC filing · May 2026 · grade B
  • Verdict: not built yet. McCloud Generation (366 MW, 813 x 450 kW Enchanted Rock engines, El Paso Electric-owned) is scheduled for construction Aug 2026 to May 2027 with service beginning in 2027 under PUCT Docket 59076;
    “McCloud Generation, a 366 MW gas generation facility which will be located on approximately 31-acres adjacent to the Wurldwide Data Center”
    Utility regulator · Dec. 2025 · grade B
  • Utility service: 100 MW
    “over 100 MW”
    Utility regulator · July 2025 · grade B
  • On-site plant status: not built yet
    “Construction of the power plant is scheduled to begin in August and be completed in May 2027, EPE reported.”
    News report · Oct. 2026 · grade C
  • The McCloud plan was publicly detailed: 813 modular gas generators (366 MW) at a stated $473M cost, online by 2027, islanded for a bridge period of up to 5 years with Meta covering all costs (DCD)
    “Meta would cover all costs associated with the generation units in an initial five-year bridge period”
    News report · Oct. 2026 · grade C
  • Wurldwide filed Project Seafox with TDLR: 12 more data center buildings and five owner substations on about 600 acres; works Nov 2025 - Feb 2029 (BLDUP via DCD)
    “Meta will establish five owner substations and develop around 600 acres of land”
    News report · Oct. 2026 · grade C
  • Gov. Abbott directed a state data-center audit (ownership disclosure, power, water) aimed at the ERCOT process; El Paso is outside ERCOT, and Foley & Lardner advised that non-ERCOT and purely behind-the-meter projects ma
    “El Paso is not part of ERCOT, which manages the state's electric grid”
    News report · Oct. 2026 · grade C
  • On-site generation: 366 MW
    “The power plant, to be built on 31 acres adjacent to the Meta data center complex, will use 813 natural-gas-fueled generators arranged in 168 rows to produce up to 366 megawatts”
    News report · Sept. 2026 · grade C
  • large load interconnection request: ALJs recommended conditional approval
    “The judges recommended that the Public Utilities Commission only approve the application on the condition that El Paso Electric does not pass capital and operating costs on to its ratepayers.”
    News report · Sept. 2026 · grade C
  • Buildings expansion: 12 additional data center buildings + 5 owner substations filed (Project Seafox, TDLR, Apr 2026); works Nov 2025 - Feb 2029 per filing reports
    “Meta will establish five owner substations and develop around 600 acres of land”
    News report · April 2026 · grade C
  • Stated campus size: 1,000 MW
    “Meta revealed that the company will invest $10 billion in the campus, which will have up to 1GW of capacity”
    News report · March 2026 · grade C
  • Construction stage: under construction
    “Ground was broken on the project in October. In February 2026, the company revealed it would deploy 813 modular gas generators”
    News report · March 2026 · grade C
Money and contracts (72)
  • electric service / generation: condition (PFD recommendation) - grant the CCN ONLY if approval is conditioned on EPE holding all customers other than Wurldwide harmless from McCloud capital and operating costs; otherwise
    “approval is conditioned on EPE holding its customers other than Wurldwide harmless from the capital and operating costs of the Project”
    Utility regulator · Sept. 2026 · grade A
  • electric service / generation: condition (PFD recommendation) - EPE may seek future cost recovery from other customers only if it can then make the showings required by PURA Section 37.056
    “EPE be allowed to seek cost recovery for the McCloud facility in the future if at that time it can make the showings required by PURA Section 37.056”
    Utility regulator · Sept. 2026 · grade A
  • electric service / generation: condition (PFD recommendation) - adopt Staff's weatherization condition (compliance with NERC Reliability Standard EOP-012-3); EPE agreed to it
    “the ALJs recommend adopting Staff's proposed weatherization conditions, which EPE has agreed to”
    Utility regulator · Sept. 2026 · grade A
  • electric service / generation: finding - the ALJs DECLINED the City's proposed conditions: a $565.6M capital cost cap (about 102.5% of the $551.8M estimate) and a 90% equivalent-availability performance guarantee 5656000
    “The ALJs decline to recommend the City's proposed cost cap or performance guarantee”
    Utility regulator · Sept. 2026 · grade A
  • generation procurement: scope - Enchanted Rock was engaged to supply, install and operate the 813 modular units after Wurldwide expressed its preference for the vendor; EPE ran no RFP, considered no alternatives and perf
    “following Wurldwide's preference for Enchanted Rock, LLC (Enchanted Rock), EPE engaged that vendor”
    Utility regulator · Sept. 2026 · grade A
  • El paso assets held for sale: 1480 USD millions
    “assets with a carrying value of $1.48 billion, consisting mostly of construction in progress and land. We expect to dispose of these assets in the third quarter of 2026 through a contribution to a third party”
    SEC filing · July 2026 · grade A
  • Co development venture: 20 %
    “In July 2026, we entered into an exclusivity agreement to co-develop a data center campus in El Paso, Texas, through a venture in which we would hold a 20% membership interest”
    SEC filing · July 2026 · grade A
  • Meta agreed (July 2026 exclusivity agreement, Q2 2026 10-Q Note 13) to move the El Paso campus into a co-development venture in which it would hold only a 20% membership interest, contributing ~$2.3B of assets net of lia
    “we would hold a 20% membership interest. The transaction is subject to the execution of definitive agreements and customary closing conditions”
    SEC filing · July 2026 · grade A
  • electric service rate: scope - Economic Development Rate approved for the new Wurldwide data center; rates were set on approximately 220 MW of load expectations (the Region 1 block) 220 MW rate basis
    “Application of El Paso Electric Company for an Economic Development Rate for a New Data Center to be Located in El Paso Texas, Docket No. 56903, Order (July 31, 2025)”
    Utility regulator · Dec. 2025 · grade A
  • electric service / generation: scope - bridge period: from 2027, for up to 5 years, McCloud is electrically connected to the campus load but NOT interconnected with the EPE transmission system; Wurldwide receives the pla
    “the Wurldwide Data Center will receive the total power output of the facility and will be solely responsible for all associated costs”
    Utility regulator · Dec. 2025 · grade A
  • electric service / generation: condition - post-bridge: EPE will seek approval to interconnect McCloud to its transmission system and end the bridge period, then roll the facility's cost into jurisdictional cost of servi
    “EPE will seek approval to modify the physical electrical connection of McCloud Generation to connect directly with EPE's transmission system and to end the bridge period”
    Utility regulator · Dec. 2025 · grade A
  • Economic Development Rate (EPE Schedules 33A/33B) + stipulation, PUCT 56903: term max 5 years from initiation of service unless extended by EPE and approved years
    “service under Rate Schedule Nos. 33A and 33B will not exceed five years from the date of initiation of service unless extended by El Paso Electric”
    Utility regulator · July 2025 · grade A
  • Economic Development Rate (EPE Schedules 33A/33B) + stipulation, PUCT 56903: minimum bill (demand ratchet) 80% of highest measured demand %
    “should be changed to be "80% of the highest measured demand..." instead of"75%."”
    Utility regulator · July 2025 · grade A
  • Economic Development Rate (EPE Schedules 33A/33B) + stipulation, PUCT 56903: cost allocation Dedicated incremental costs for the 33A/33B customer excluded from TCRF/GCRR; under-recovery booked as regulatory asset; EPE mu
    “El Paso Electric must book as a regulatory asset the incremental costs to serve customers under Schedule Nos. 33A and 33B in excess of the revenues received”
    Utility regulator · July 2025 · grade A
  • Economic Development Rate (EPE Schedules 33A/33B) + stipulation, PUCT 56903: follow-on filing commitment File a large-load high-load-factor tariff (transmission voltage, peak >40 MW, LF >=85%) within 90 days of final ord
    “the new rate schedule would be applicable for customers receiving service at transmission voltage with peak demand exceeding 40 MW and an expected load factor of 85% or higher”
    Utility regulator · July 2025 · grade A
  • Customer Agreement EPE / Wurldwide (negotiated): existence Negotiated Customer Agreement filed as Confidential Exhibit A to the 56903 application (not public)
    “EPE is including, for informational purposes only, the negotiated Customer Agreement between the Company and Wurldwide. (Confidential Exhibit A).”
    Utility regulator · Aug. 2024 · grade A
  • Incentives: Wurldwide affidavit: approval from City of El Paso and El Paso County for Ch. 380 and Ch. 381 incentives (sworn July 23, 2024)
    “Wurldwide has approval from the City of El Paso and El Paso County to receive economic incentives pursuant to Chapter 380 and Chapter 381”
    Utility regulator · July 2024 · grade A
  • Incentives: City Ch. 312 abatement 80% for 10 yrs/phase + City Ch. 380 grants 80% for 15 yrs/phase + County Ch. 312 abatement 80% for 10 yrs/phase + County Ch. 381 grants 80% for 15 yrs/phase; up to 5 phases; 35-year agr
    “the abatement of eighty percent (80%) of the City's incremental ad valorem real property taxes”
    Local government · Dec. 2023 · grade A
  • Jobs contract floor: 50 full-time jobs
    “will maintain at least fifty (50) Full-Time Jobs during any remaining Abatement Period”
    Local government · Dec. 2023 · grade A
  • First announced: Dec. 5, 2023
    “Contract of Sale for the Land entered into between the City as seller and Company as buyer, effective as of December 5, 2023”
    Local government · Dec. 2023 · grade A
  • tax abatement: scope - abatement rate (real property increments + personal property) 80 %
    “abatement of eighty percent (80%) of the City's ad valorem taxes on Personal Property”
    Local government · Dec. 2023 · grade A
  • tax abatement: term - 35 years from the Effective Date unless terminated earlier 35 years
    “will expire thirty-five (35) years from the Effective Date”
    Local government · Dec. 2023 · grade A
  • tax abatement: condition - Investment Commitment for the Initial Project Improvements (same investment cross-counts toward the Ch. 380 commitment) 800000000 USD
    “Eight Hundred Million Dollars ($800,000,000.00) (the Investment Commitment)”
    Local government · Dec. 2023 · grade A
  • tax abatement: condition - Employment Commitment: at least 50 Full-Time Jobs in total for ALL phases combined (not per phase), at or above the Annual Area Median Wage ($16.43/hr 2022 floor) 50 full-time jobs (all phases
    “the fifty (50) Full-Time Jobs required herein is a total of at least fifty (50) Full-Time Jobs for all Phases combined”
    Local government · Dec. 2023 · grade A
  • tax abatement: schedule - Abatement Period per phase; phases may run concurrently or successively 10 calendar years per phase
    “Abatement Period for each Phase, respectively, shall mean a period of ten (10) calendar years”
    Local government · Dec. 2023 · grade A
  • tax abatement: termination - Section 6.1: City may terminate on written notice if the Completion Date or the Investment Commitment is missed by the Completion Deadline; termination is the City's sole and exclusive remedy
    “the City shall have the right to terminate this Agreement by providing written notice to Company without further obligation to Company as its sole and exclusive remedy”
    Local government · Dec. 2023 · grade A
  • tax abatement: remedy - Section 6.2: if Commencement of Construction (clearing and grading) has not occurred within 5 years of the Effective Date, after notice and a 90-day cure the City may cut the Phase 1 Abatement Per
    “the City may reduce the Abatement Period for Phase 1 for each year that the Commencement of Construction is delayed beyond the initial five (5) years”
    Local government · Dec. 2023 · grade A
  • tax abatement: remedy - Section 6.3: employment shortfall after notice and a 180-day cure: 41-49 jobs = that year's abatement reduced 8% per missing job; 40 or fewer jobs = no abatement that year (reduction, not terminat
    “any Abatement(s) for that year will be reduced by eight percent (8%) for each one Full-Time Job deficiency for that year”
    Local government · Dec. 2023 · grade A
  • tax abatement: termination - Section 6.4: tax delinquency, after a 60-day cure, allows termination limited to the affected phase only
    “the City shall have the right to terminate this Agreement (limited to and solely with respect to the applicable Phase that has delinquent City taxes)”
    Local government · Dec. 2023 · grade A
  • tax abatement: termination - Section 6.5: foreclosure, involuntary conveyance or receivership allows termination as to the affected phase(s) on written notice
    “upon the occurrence of any of the following events, the City will have the right to terminate this Agreement (with respect to the applicable Phase(s))”
    Local government · Dec. 2023 · grade A
  • tax abatement: recapture - Section 6.7: conviction under 8 U.S.C. 1324a(f) (pattern/practice of employing unauthorized aliens) requires repayment of all abatements received plus interest, within 120 days of written deman
    “Company shall repay, within one hundred twenty (120) calendar days following receipt of written demand from the City, the aggregate amount of the value of the Abatement received”
    Local government · Dec. 2023 · grade A
  • economic development grant: scope - annual grants equal to 80% of City Property Tax Revenue attributable to each phase's improvements, paid only after the City has received the prior tax year's City taxes in full 80 % of
    “annual grants on each Annual Payment Date in an amount equal to eighty percent (80%) of the aggregate Property Tax Revenue attributable to the Initial Project Improvements”
    Local government · Dec. 2023 · grade A
  • economic development grant: schedule - 15 consecutive grants per phase, beginning in the First Grant Year (after the phase's 10-year Ch. 312 abatement period): grant year 1 plus 14 additional consecutive years 15 consecu
    “beginning in the First Grant Year for the Initial Project Improvements, and continuing for 14 additional consecutive Grant Years thereafter, for a total of 15 consecutive Initial Property Tax Grants”
    Local government · Dec. 2023 · grade A
  • economic development grant: condition - Section 5.2 appropriation: if the City does not appropriate grant funds, the Term automatically extends 1 year per non-appropriated year and the Company keeps all legal rights and
    “the Term of this Agreement shall automatically be extended by one year for every year in which the City does not appropriate funds for a Property Tax Grant”
    Local government · Dec. 2023 · grade A
  • economic development grant: scope - Section 4.6.1: City reimburses Stan Roberts Sr. Ave. improvement costs beyond the Company's Proportionate Share (half the right-of-way width), capped at $7.5M, increasable by up to 20%
    “Improvements that are beyond the Company's Proportionate Share in an amount not to exceed $7,500,000.00”
    Local government · Dec. 2023 · grade A
  • economic development grant: scope - Section 5.3: City waives all impact fees and all other City fees (filing, development, application, review, inspection, permit) and requires no parkland dedication; carve-outs are rein
    “the City hereby waives, or shall cause to be waived, any and all impact fees and any and all other City fees”
    Local government · Dec. 2023 · grade A
  • economic development grant: termination - Section 6.1: City may terminate on written notice if the Completion Date or the $800M Investment Commitment is missed by the Completion Deadline; sole and exclusive remedy (Secti
    “the City shall have the right to terminate this Agreement by providing written notice to Company without further obligation to Company, as its sole and exclusive remedy”
    Local government · Dec. 2023 · grade A
  • economic development grant: condition - Section 14.4 new-tax standstill: City staff shall not during the Term recommend or support new Taxes applicable solely to the Project, the Company, the Land, computer-equipment ope
    “City staff shall not during the Term recommend or support any new Taxes that are applicable solely to the Project, the Company, the Land”
    Local government · Dec. 2023 · grade A
  • economic development grant: condition - Section 14.9 moratorium shield: no post-Effective-Date moratorium or interim control ordinance relating to the Project applies to the Property unless necessary to public health and
    “No ordinance, resolution, policy or other measure enacted after the Effective Date that relates directly or indirectly to the Project shall apply to the Property or this Agreement”
    Local government · Dec. 2023 · grade A
  • economic development grant: condition - Sections 17.1-17.3: the Company may mortgage/encumber the Land without limit; mortgagees receive notice of default and a 120-day cure right during which the City may not exercise r
    “a Mortgagee shall have the right, but not the obligation, to cure such default within one hundred twenty (120) days after such Mortgagee receives such notice”
    Local government · Dec. 2023 · grade A
  • land sale: scope - City sells the approximately 1,038.948-acre Stan Roberts / US-54 site to Wurldwide (contract effective Dec 5, 2023); purchase price not retrieved this pass 1038.948 acres
    “Contract of Sale for the Land entered into between the City as seller and Company as buyer, effective as of December 5, 2023”
    Local government · Dec. 2023 · grade A
  • tax abatement: scope - abatement rate (real property increments + personal property) 80 %
    “abatement of eighty percent (80%) of the County's ad valorem taxes on Personal Property”
    Local government · Dec. 2023 · grade A
  • tax abatement: schedule - Abatement Period per phase 10 consecutive calendar years per phase
    “Abatement Period for each Phase, respectively, shall mean a period of ten (10) consecutive calendar years”
    Local government · Dec. 2023 · grade A
  • tax abatement: condition - Full-Time Job standard: at least 40 hours/week (or the Company's own full-time standard) paying at least the Annual Area Median County Wage; commitments mirror the City agreements ($800M invest
    “pays at least the Annual Area Median County Wage”
    Local government · Dec. 2023 · grade A
  • economic development grant: scope - annual Property Tax Grants equal to 80% of County Property Tax Revenue attributable to each eligible phase, paid by June 1 after the County has received that phase's county taxes in fu
    “annual grants on each Annual Payment Date in an amount equal to eighty percent (80%) of the aggregate Property Tax Revenue attributable to the Initial Project Improvements”
    Local government · Dec. 2023 · grade A
  • economic development grant: schedule - First Grant Year is the 12th calendar year after the completion-report year (grants follow the phase's 10-year abatement); 15 consecutive grants per phase 15 consecutive grants per
    “First Grant Year (i) for the Initial Project Improvements, shall mean the twelfth calendar year following the year in which Company provides the County with the Initial Completion Report”
    Local government · Dec. 2023 · grade A
  • economic development grant: condition - no double benefit: the same phase may never receive both an abatement and a grant in the same year; up to five phases are eligible and there is no cap on the investment constitutin
    “Under no circumstances shall the same Phase receive both an abatement (under the Tax Abatement Agreement) and a grant payment (under this Agreement) in the same year”
    Local government · Dec. 2023 · grade A
  • economic development grant: condition - Section 5.2 appropriation: if the County does not appropriate grant funds, the Term automatically extends 1 year per non-appropriated year
    “the Term of this Agreement shall automatically be extended by one year for every year in which the County does not appropriate funds for a Property Tax Grant”
    Local government · Dec. 2023 · grade A
  • economic development grant: condition - title transfer / assignment: provided the Company remains lessee or its substantial equivalent, Wurldwide may transfer fee title to a third party and retain its grant rights - the
    “Company may transfer fee simple title to the Land to a third party and continue to exercise its rights and obligations under this Agreement”
    Local government · Dec. 2023 · grade A
  • electric service rate: finding - the EDR discount percentage, term, minimum-bill and termination terms were NOT retrieved this pass (the Docket 56903 order text was not opened)
    “The Commission recently approved rates for this customer based on those load expectations (Docket No. 56903, Economic Development Rate, Order July 31, 2025)”
    Utility regulator · Oct. 2026 · grade B
  • Milbank advised J.P. Morgan Securities and Morgan Stanley on a $12.6 billion private securities offering to raise capital for the Meta-BlackRock El Paso venture - $0.1B above the $12.5B debt figure in Meta's release
    “advised J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC in a $12.6 billion private securities offering”
    Company · Oct. 2026 · grade B
  • Stage: building - real and financed; campus under construction, but the McCloud CCN is still unapproved (the ALJ PFD recommends conditional approval only)
    “the ALJs recommend that the Commission approve the CCN application only if it is conditioned on EPE holding its customers harmless”
    Utility regulator · Sept. 2026 · grade B
  • Tenants: Meta Platforms, Inc. (sole tenant of the Meta-BlackRock venture; leases cover the entire campus)
    “Meta will enter into lease agreements with the venture for use of the entire data center campus”
    Company · July 2026 · grade B
  • Tenant status: sole occupant; initial sole occupant upon completion; no third-party tenant
    “will be the initial sole occupant of the campus upon completion”
    Company · July 2026 · grade B
  • Stated capital cost: 14000000000 USD
    “approximately $14 billion in total development costs for the buildings and long-lived power, cooling, and connectivity infrastructure”
    Company · July 2026 · grade B
  • Financing: Meta-BlackRock venture (announced Jul 28, 2026): BlackRock funds 80% / Meta 20%; about $12.5B of debt financing supports BlackRock's share; Meta contributes land + construction-in-progress valued at about $2.3
    “A portion of BlackRock's investment will be funded with proceeds from a $12.5 billion debt financing”
    Company · July 2026 · grade B
  • joint venture / leaseback: scope - venture ownership: BlackRock funds 80%, Meta 20%; the parties committed to fund pro rata shares of about $14B in total development costs 80 % BlackRock funds (Meta 20%)
    “Funds managed by BlackRock will own an 80% interest in the venture, while Meta will retain the remaining 20% ownership”
    Company · July 2026 · grade B
  • joint venture / leaseback: term - Meta leases the ENTIRE campus: 4-year initial term with 4 extension options, a potential 20-year term 4 years initial (+ 4 extension options, up to 20 years)
    “The leases have a four-year initial term with four options to extend, providing Meta with long-term flexibility over a potential 20-year term”
    Company · July 2026 · grade B
  • joint venture / leaseback: condition - residual value guarantees: aggregate threshold of about $13B, decreasing over time; if conditions are met within the first 16 years of the lease term, Meta's maximum payment is the
    “Meta also will provide residual value guarantees (RVG) which have an aggregate threshold of approximately $13 billion that decreases over time”
    Company · July 2026 · grade B
  • joint venture / leaseback: finding - the announcement discloses NO lease termination clause, termination fee or minimum-rent schedule; the executed venture and lease documents are not public
    “Meta will enter into lease agreements with the venture for use of the entire data center campus. The leases have a four-year initial term with four options to extend, providing a potential 20-year term.”
    Company · July 2026 · grade B
  • Land control: owned (fee simple) - City of El Paso sold the site to Wurldwide LLC; sale closed April 18, 2024 under a Contract of Sale effective December 5, 2023
    “Property Sold 4/18/24”
    Local government · April 2026 · grade B
  • tax abatement / economic development grant: finding - NO termination-for-convenience clause and NO global non-appropriation clause in either the City Ch. 312 or Ch. 380 agreement (City outside counsel, Apr 13, 2026)
    “No termination for convenience clause or global non-appropriation clause”
    Local government · April 2026 · grade B
  • land sale: condition/remedy - Wurldwide must develop the property within 5 years of purchase; on an uncured breach the City may elect to repurchase the property OR recover liquidated damages (per the City's outside-couns
    “recover liquidated damages $5m”
    Local government · April 2026 · grade B
  • Stated capital cost: 1500000000 USD
    “the El Paso Data Center will represent an investment of more than $1.5 billion”
    Company · Oct. 2025 · grade B
  • Square feet: 1200000 sq ft
    “This almost 1.2 million-square-foot campus will be optimized for our AI workloads”
    Company · Oct. 2025 · grade B
  • grant allocation: scope - City Council resolution allocates TED Program funds for the Stan Roberts / US-54 intersection improvements, in connection with the Ch. 380 agreement (separate from the Ch. 380 Section 4.6.1 road
    “the City approves the allocation of funds from the Texas Economic Development Incentive Program to fund the intersection improvements at Stan Roberts and US-54”
    Local government · Dec. 2023 · grade B
  • The El Paso Times identified Meta Platforms as the company behind Wurldwide LLC and the $800M first phase, days after the Dec 5, 2023 city approvals (via Good Jobs First Subsidy Tracker source notes)
    “Facebook owner Meta Platforms eyes El Paso for $800M data center, El Paso Times (Texas), December 7, 2023”
    Dataset · Oct. 2026 · grade C
  • Meta raised the campus investment from $1.5B to $10B (Gary Demasi, VP data center development, at the Borderplex Alliance summit); stated footprint rose from 1.2M sq ft toward 3.1M sq ft in later coverage
    “In March 2026, Meta said it would invest $10 billion in the campus”
    News report · Oct. 2026 · grade C
  • Political backlash: a recall effort targeting City Rep. Cynthia Boyar Trejo is tied to the Meta deal fight, and the Sembrando Esperanza Coalition campaigns to terminate the Meta contracts (El Paso Herald Post)
    “An effort to remove a city representative, Cynthia Boyar Trejo, masks the larger battle over who protects local resources”
    News report · Oct. 2026 · grade C
  • El Paso Water's Public Service Board approved selling 592 acres next to the campus to Jobe Materials for $8.15M with deed restrictions barring high-load data centers; EPE bid $6.8M and lost; EPE owns about 36 acres in th
    “El Paso Electric, which plans to build a power plant next to the Meta data center to help meet its electricity needs, bid $6.8 million for the property”
    News report · Oct. 2026 · grade C
  • Stated capital cost: 10000000000 USD
    “In March 2026, Meta said it would invest $10 billion in the campus”
    News report · March 2026 · grade C
  • Water contract avg day: 1.5 MGD
    “The posted 2023 agreement's Tier III table lists 1.5 million gallons for an average day”
    News report · Dec. 2023 · grade C
Permits and government (37)
  • Stormwater: Issued (ACTIVE)
    “MCCLOUD POWER STATION | OFF OF GATEWAY N. BLVD. AND STATE LINE DR. | EL PASO | TXR1523YV | ISSUED PERMIT | Enchanted Rock, LLC”
    State agency · Oct. 2026 · grade A
  • CCN case management: administrative completeness recommended
    “On December 29, 2025, staff (Staff) of the Commission recommended that EPE's application be deemed administratively complete”
    Utility regulator · Sept. 2026 · grade A
  • SOAH referral: referred for hearing
    “On March 11, 2026, the Commission issued an order referring this matter to the State Office of Administrative Hearings (SOAH)”
    Utility regulator · Sept. 2026 · grade A
  • SOAH hearing: hearing on the merits held (videoconference)
    “a hearing on the merits was held on July 8, 2026, via videoconference before SOAH ALJs Cassandra Quinn and Arthur D'Andrea”
    Utility regulator · Sept. 2026 · grade A
  • Proposal for Decision: PFD issued - conditional approval recommended; denial recommended without a hold-harmless condition; final Commission order pending (press expects a vote by Dec 2026)
    “Please find attached a Proposal for Decision (PFD) in this case”
    Utility regulator · Sept. 2026 · grade A
  • Air permit: registered
    “EPE has already registered the McCloud facility with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality under the Standard Permit for Electric Units”
    Utility regulator · Sept. 2026 · grade A
  • Public Utility Commission of Texas (Docket No. 59076): City of El Paso motion to intervene in the McCloud CCN case
    “City of El Paso's (City) motion was granted on January 14, 2026”
    Utility regulator · Sept. 2026 · grade A
  • State Office of Administrative Hearings: Hearing on the merits, PUC Docket No. 59076 / SOAH No. 473-26-14758
    “a hearing on the merits was held on July 8, 2026, via videoconference”
    Utility regulator · Sept. 2026 · grade A
  • CCN amendment application: filed
    “COMES NOW, EL PASO ELECTRIC COMPANY (EPE or Company), and files this application for approval to amend its certificate of convenience and necessity (CCN)”
    Utility regulator · Dec. 2025 · grade A
  • Economic Development Rate order: approved
    “Application of El Paso Electric Company for an Economic Development Rate for a New Data Center to be Located in El Paso Texas, Docket No. 56903, Order (July 31, 2025)”
    Utility regulator · Dec. 2025 · grade A
  • Subdivision plat: approved
    “The City Plan Commission, at its regular meeting of September 19, 2024, voted to approve Seafox Addition (SUSU24-00065) on a Major Preliminary basis”
    Local government · Aug. 2025 · grade A
  • Subdivision plat: staff recommended approval (the CPC has sole and final authority on subdivision matters); plat expires Aug 14, 2028 if not recorded
    “The applicant is proposing to subdivide 1,038.94 acres to create a one-lot commercial subdivision”
    Local government · Aug. 2025 · grade A
  • City of El Paso City Plan Commission: Seafox Addition preliminary plat (SUSU24-00065)
    “The City Plan Commission, at its regular meeting of September 19, 2024, voted to approve Seafox Addition (SUSU24-00065) on a Major Preliminary basis”
    Local government · Aug. 2025 · grade A
  • City of El Paso City Plan Commission: Seafox Addition major final plat (SUSU25-00066) - 1,038.94 acres, one-lot commercial subdivision
    “Staff recommendation is APPROVAL of Seafox Addition on a Major Final basis”
    Local government · Aug. 2025 · grade A
  • Economic Development Rate (retail tariff): final Order approving Rate Schedules 33A and 33B (informal disposition)
    “The Commission approves El Paso Electric's Rate Schedule No. 33A, large economic development rate, and Rate Schedule No. 33B, medium economic development rate”
    Utility regulator · July 2025 · grade A
  • FAA OE/AAA: Determined - No Hazard
    “Mobile crane to build new construction data center”
    FAA · July 2025 · grade A
  • Economic Development Rate (retail tariff): unanimous stipulation filed
    “On April 24,2025, El Paso Electric filed, on behalf of all the parties to this proceeding, the agreement that resolved all issues among the parties in this proceeding.”
    Utility regulator · April 2025 · grade A
  • Economic Development Rate (retail tariff): referred to SOAH
    “On December 10, 2024, the Commission referred this docket to the State of Administrative Hearings (SOAH).”
    Utility regulator · Dec. 2024 · grade A
  • Economic Development Rate (retail tariff): administratively complete (Order No. 3)
    “In Order No. 3 filed on August 23,2024, the Commission administrative law judge (ALJ) found the application administratively complete.”
    Utility regulator · Aug. 2024 · grade A
  • Economic Development Rate (retail tariff): application filed
    “files this application pursuant to EPE's Economic Development Rate ("EDR") Rider for approval oftariffs and rates to serve Wurldwide LLC1, a new Data Center”
    Utility regulator · Aug. 2024 · grade A
  • Zoning: C-4 (Commercial District) under Ordinance No. 019573 (Dec 5, 2023); electronic data management / data center uses are permitted uses; vested rights under Chapter 245, Texas Local Government Code
    “Existing Zoning applies to the Property pursuant to Ordinance No. 019573 approved by the City Council on December 5, 2023”
    Local government · Dec. 2023 · grade A
  • Reinvestment zone creation: adopted (Reinvestment Zone No. 1)
    “Reinvestment Zone No. 1, City of El Paso, Texas (the Zone) established by the City Council on November 21, 2023 by Ordinance No. 019562”
    Local government · Dec. 2023 · grade A
  • Zoning ordinance: adopted (C-4 Commercial; data-center uses permitted)
    “Existing Zoning applies to the Property pursuant to Ordinance No. 019573 approved by the City Council on December 5, 2023”
    Local government · Dec. 2023 · grade A
  • City of El Paso City Council: Creation of Reinvestment Zone No. 1 (Ordinance No. 019562) covering the 1,038.948-acre Stan Roberts site
    “Reinvestment Zone No. 1, City of El Paso, Texas (the Zone) established by the City Council on November 21, 2023 by Ordinance No. 019562”
    Local government · Dec. 2023 · grade A
  • City of El Paso City Council: Seafox package: Contract of Sale (effective Dec 5, 2023), zoning Ordinance No. 019573, Ch. 312 abatement agreement and Ch. 380 agreement with Wurldwide LLC; TED $5M allocation for the Stan R
    “Ordinance No. 019573 approved by the City Council on December 5, 2023”
    Local government · Dec. 2023 · grade A
  • El Paso County Commissioners Court: Approval of the County Ch. 312 abatement agreement (Contract 2023-0915) and Ch. 381 agreement (Contract 2023-0916) with Wurldwide LLC
    “381 Economic Development Program Agreement between 2023-0916 El Paso County and Wurldwide LLC”
    Local government · Dec. 2023 · grade A
  • FAA airspace cases within 5 nautical miles: 2 cases
    “2026-ASW-5376-OE Gonzales 2 (207204) Determined - No Hazard sub 05/18/2026; 2026-ASW-17138-OE Tower Studying sub 10/16/2026”
    FAA · Oct. 2026 · grade B
  • FAA obstruction evaluation (7460-1): Studying
    “ASN 2026-ASW-17138-OE: Tower, Tower, 85 ft AGL, 4121 ft AMSL, 31.99200,-106.35530, Studying, submitted 2026-10-16”
    FAA · Oct. 2026 · grade B
  • Large-power tariff application: filed (pending)
    “Application of El Paso Electric Company for Approval of a High Load Factor Large Power Service Tariff; Application (Apr. 7, 2026) (pending)”
    Utility regulator · Sept. 2026 · grade B
  • City of El Paso City Council (open session): Husch Blackwell economic development review of the Wurldwide agreements - enforceability and termination briefing
    “Are the City's Wurldwide agreements enforceable? Can the City terminate those agreements for cause?”
    Local government · April 2026 · grade B
  • The City of El Paso (an intervenor) recommended the PUCT DENY the McCloud CCN application, questioning procurement, alternatives, costs and long-term need (City statement, via El Paso in Focus)
    “the City described a 366-megawatt natural-gas proposal with an estimated cost of $551.8 million and recommended that regulators deny the application”
    News report · Oct. 2026 · grade C
  • Abbott ordered TCEQ to pause issuing data-center permits statewide; both campus air permits predate the pause, but whether the 1 GW build-out requires a second plant air permit is an open question (Herald Post analysis)
    “the existing air permit for the power plant was not identified as having the generating capacity for 1-GW of power”
    News report · Oct. 2026 · grade C
  • Air permit: issued (per press review of TCEQ records)
    “Wurldwide LLC, the developer of El Paso's datacenter was issued an air permit in February”
    News report · Sept. 2026 · grade C
  • Governor's permit pause: statewide halt on issuing data-center permits pending audit recommendations
    “he directed TCEQ to pause the issuance of all permits related to data centers in Texas”
    News report · Sept. 2026 · grade C
  • City of El Paso City Council: Council minutes identify PUCT Docket No. 59611 (High Load Factor Large Power Service tariff application) and authorize intervention
    “Council's April 27 minutes identify docket 59611 as the High Load Factor Large Power Service tariff application and authorize intervention”
    News report · July 2026 · grade C
  • City of El Paso City Council: Vote to stop incentivizing future large data centers (going-forward policy; the existing Meta agreements are unaffected)
    “City Council voted unanimously at its May 26th meeting to no longer incentivize data centers”
    News report · June 2026 · grade C
  • City of El Paso City Council: Vote against renegotiating the Meta/Wurldwide agreements; the City Manager and City Attorney advised the 2023 agreements are legally binding and cannot simply be cancelled
    “Many residents have asked whether the city can simply cancel the Meta agreement. The answer is no”
    News report · June 2026 · grade C
Legal (1)
  • Announced: Nov. 23, 2023
    “El Paso city officials want to sell 1,039 acres of vacant land in Northeast El Paso for a large data center.”
    News report · Nov. 2023 · grade C
Site and other (22)
  • Developer: Wurldwide LLC (Delaware LLC, d/b/a Statue LLC), wholly owned by Meta Platforms Inc
    “Wurldwide LLC is owned by Meta Platforms Inc”
    Utility regulator · Dec. 2025 · grade A
  • Water source: El Paso Water (EPWater) municipal supply; a 24-inch transmission main and 21-inch sewer interceptor were built along Stan Roberts Sr. Ave. (fall 2025); the developer pays for on-site and off-site extensions
    “Currently a 24-inch water transmission main along Stan Roberts Sr. Avenue is under construction”
    Local government · Aug. 2025 · grade A
  • Minimum bill terms: Billing demand = highest of three items; item C set at 80% of highest measured demand (ratchet), raised from proposed 75%; ratchet waived during commissioning up to 2 years (33B)
    “the third item, item C, should be changed to be "80% of the highest measured demand..." instead of"75%."”
    Utility regulator · July 2025 · grade A
  • Original target date: retail service expected 12-18 months after Aug 2024; full load 3-4 years (i.e. ~2027-2028)
    “EPE expects that the Customer will begin retail service in 12 to 18 months, depending on start of construction, and reach full load in the next 3 to 4 years”
    Utility regulator · Aug. 2024 · grade A
  • Location: North side of Stan Roberts Sr. Avenue, west of U.S. Highway 54, northeast El Paso, El Paso County, TX
    “located on the northside of Stan Roberts Sr. Avenue, West of U.S. Highway 54 in the City”
    Local government · Dec. 2023 · grade A
  • Acres: 1038.948 acres
    “The Company is considering the purchase of approximately 1,038.948 acres of Land owned by the City”
    Local government · Dec. 2023 · grade A
  • Current target date: 2028
    “the venture expects to begin bringing this capacity online in 2028”
    Company · Oct. 2026 · grade B
  • Meta publicly announced the El Paso campus (Hello, El Paso!) - the project's public debut, nearly two years after the land and incentive closing
    “El Paso, Texas, will be home to our next state-of-the-art data center”
    Company · Oct. 2026 · grade B
  • Developer parent: Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ: META)
    “Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ: META) and BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK) today announced a venture”
    Company · July 2026 · grade B
  • Operator: Meta (construction management, administrative and property management services to the venture); campus developed by Wurldwide LLC
    “Meta will provide construction management, administrative, and property management services for the campus”
    Company · July 2026 · grade B
  • Construction stage: under construction - vertical construction underway (site clearing/grading began Apr 9, 2025; public groundbreaking Oct 15, 2025; over 2,300 workers on site Jul 2026)
    “Over 2,300 workers are already onsite”
    Company · July 2026 · grade B
  • Original target date: 2028
    “the venture expects to begin bringing this capacity online in 2028”
    Company · July 2026 · grade B
  • Jobs construction peak: 4000 workers
    “supporting more than 4,000 construction jobs at peak and 300 operational jobs once complete”
    Company · July 2026 · grade B
  • Jobs operational stated: 300 jobs
    “supporting more than 4,000 construction jobs at peak and 300 operational jobs once complete”
    Company · July 2026 · grade B
  • Name: Meta El Paso Data Center
    “El Paso, Texas, will be home to our next state-of-the-art data center”
    Company · Oct. 2025 · grade B
  • EPE proposed changes to the existing Economic Development Rate in a separate proceeding from the Docket 59611 tariff case (City rate statement, via El Paso in Focus)
    “A July 20 announcement concerns proposed changes to the existing Economic Development Rate”
    News report · Oct. 2026 · grade C
  • Water modeled average use: 480000 gallons/day
    “estimates approximately 480,000 gallons per day of average use and describes 2.5 million as an extreme-heat maximum”
    News report · July 2026 · grade C
  • Code names: Project Seafox
    “Meta subsidiary Wurldwide LLC has applied to develop 12 data center buildings under Project Seafox”
    News report · April 2026 · grade C
  • Address: 7001 Stan Roberts Sr Ave, El Paso, TX
    “has applied to develop 12 data center buildings under Project Seafox at 7001 Stan Roberts Sr in El Paso”
    News report · April 2026 · grade C
  • Site area: 1000 acres
    “the company operating behind the WurldWide LLC affiliate to acquire more than 1,000 acres of land in the northeast of the city”
    News report · March 2026 · grade C
  • Cooling: closed-loop, liquid-cooled system; Meta states the design uses zero water for the majority of the year
    “will use a closed-loop, liquid-cooled system that will use zero water for the majority of the year”
    News report · Feb. 2026 · grade C
  • Water capacity allocation: 2.5 MGD
    “a 2.5-million-gallon daily capacity allocation”
    News report · Dec. 2023 · grade C

Imagery and records: Satellite imagery: Maxar via Esri World Imagery Wayback; Sentinel-2 (ESA Copernicus).