EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) – The arrival of global tech giants -- Meta, OpenAI, and Oracle -- in the Borderland has sparked concerns and skepticism by some in the community.

There are concerns about whether the companies’ planned data centers will severely strain the region's utility resources, and if the jobs they create will actually be filled by locals.

“People have a right to be concerned. These are massive projects. In other places, the older style data centers, they did use a lot of water. They did cause issues in the community, and what have you. These (data centers), I think, will be different because they are going into an industrial base. This industrial base was built for manufacturing and for production,” said Jerry Pacheco, president for the Border Industrial Association.

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