March 26 : Meta said on Thursday it is increasing investment in its El Paso, Texas AI data center to $10 billion, a more than sixfold jump, as it aims to hit 1-gigawatt capacity ahead of the facility's projected opening in 2028. The social media giant in October had committed an investment of $1.5 billion in the El Paso data center, its 29th such facility globally and third in Texas. Big Tech firms such as Meta, Amazon, Alphabet, and Microsoft have been racing to build AI infrastructure and are