El Paso businessman Stanley Jobe’s concrete supply company outbid El Paso Electric for 592 acres of vacant Northeast El Paso land being sold by El Paso Water.
Jobe Materials, a large El Paso supplier of concrete, aggregates, and other construction materials founded by Stanley Jobe, had the winning bid of $8.15 million for the land along Stan Roberts Sr. Avenue, just west of Facebook’s operator Meta Platforms data center complex under construction.
The El Paso Water Public Service Board approved Jobe’s bid for the land at its June 10 meeting. The sale agreement includes restrictions on the property, including barring high-load data centers, like the Meta data center, from the land. It also does not allow high-water-consuming industries, a category that some large data centers have been classified…