More data centers could be coming to El Paso. What will that mean for your electric bills?

More data centers could be coming to El Paso. What will that mean for your electric bills?

El Paso Electric is signaling that more large-scale artificial intelligence data centers are likely to come to the Borderland over the next three years – and wants them to operate under a set of rules meant to prevent El Pasoans from paying higher electric bills as a result. Companies including Meta Platforms, Oracle and Open AI are developing hyperscale data center campuses in and around El Paso as the city government is setting up operating po…