Meta Hires El Paso Insider for Data Center Trust
Meta Platforms has appointed local political strategist Lauren Zimmerman as its El Paso community engagement manager. She will lead efforts to address public concerns regarding the massive data centers resource consumption and tax breaks.
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Meta Platforms has hired a local political insider as its El Paso community engagement manager to build support for a 1-gigawatt data center complex in Texas. The project has drawn public and political backlash over electricity and water consumption and $14B in tax breaks. The hire comes as tech firms face mounting scrutiny over the resource demands of large-scale infrastructure across the United States.
