El Paso Electric's plan to power Meta's El Paso data center

As Meta Platforms continues to construct a $10 billion data center in El Paso, the region's investor-owned utility El Paso Electric is advancing its own plan to develop an onsite power plant for Meta's data center. El Paso Matters reporter Diego Mendoza-Moyers and editor Pablo Villa talk about El Paso Electric's plan to deliver electricity to Meta's facility, potential impacts to El Pasoans' utility bills and broader concerns that have fueled public backlash to the project. You can read Diego's coverage of data center issues in El Paso at elpasomatters.org.