Meta and BlackRock form a $14bn venture to build an El Paso AI data centre
28-07-2026 15:28 via thenextweb.com

Meta and BlackRock form a $14bn venture to build an El Paso AI data centre

Meta has folded its half-built El Paso data centre into a joint venture with BlackRock, formalising a structure that keeps most of a $14bn project off its own books. Under the agreement, funds managed by BlackRock will own 80% of the Texas campus and Meta the remaining 20%, though Meta stays on as the site’s […]
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