Meta has raised its planned investment in an AI data center in El Paso, Texas, from $1.5 billion to more than $10 billion, according to Crunchbase. The expanded facility is targeting one gigawatt of total capacity at its 2028 launch, which would make it one of the largest AI infrastructure projects in the United States. The move is part of a broader industry-wide race to secure compute capacity ahead of demand from next-generation AI models and agentic workloads. Meta joins Microsoft, Google, and Amazon in committing to multi-billion-dollar US data center builds, a trend also driven by government pressure to keep AI infrastructure onshore. At one gigawatt, the El Paso campus would consume roughly the same amount of power as a mid-size American city.