New Delhi, March 27 -- Meta is expanding its planned investment in an El Paso, Texas data centre to $10 billion, more than six times its original commitment. The facility, first announced with a $1.5 billion outlay, is now being positioned as a one-gigawatt site by 2028. That scale puts it in the league of hyperscale infrastructure being built to support the next phase of AI workloads, where compute demand continues to outpace existing capacity.

This isn't just an expansion, but it reflects how quickly infrastructure assumptions are changing as companies move from experimentation to full-scale deployment of AI systems.

The El Paso site will become Meta's 29th data centre globally and its third in Texas, a state that has increasingly eme...