Meta has announced yet another massive investment. This time, the company plans to build a dedicated AI data center in El Paso, Texas, with a price tag of $1.5 billion.
The target completion year is 2028, and the site is expected to scale up to as much as 1 gigawatt of power capacity. That is an enormous figure, reportedly comparable to the amount of electricity the entire city of San Francisco uses in a single day.
At first glance, this might sound like just another piece of corporate expansion news. But it is much more than that. In many ways, it shows what the global AI race is really about.
So what exactly is a data center?