Meta Temple
Chip types: B300. Epoch AI estimates ~152 MW.
Key facts
- Operator
- Meta
- Owner
- Meta
- Size
- 152 MW
- Location
- Temple, Texas
- Stage today
Source
read 2026-08-14
What to do next
Next step: Already operating — the leverage now is enforcement: noise and water conditions, tax revenue tracking, and any expansion filing, which reopens the record.
What has happened so far (11 events)
- 2022-03-31announcement
Meta announces it will build an $800 million, approximately 900,000-square-foot hyperscale data center on 393 acres off NW H K Dodgen Loop and Industrial Blvd in Temple, supporting about 100 permanent jobs with construction starting in spring 2022. · source - 2022-03-31announcement
City of Temple announces Meta's new hyperscale data center; Mayor Tim Davis calls it a significant win for the community; Temple EDC President Adrian Cannady and Governor Greg Abbott also praised the project. · source - 2022-12-15construction
KWTX reports Meta is pausing construction at its Temple facility, stating it decided to change the design; a spokesperson said Meta remains committed to the community and local stakeholders. · source - 2022-12-19coverage
Construction Dive reports Meta paused construction at its $800 million Temple data center to change the design; the pause followed Meta's November 2022 mass layoffs; general contractor is JE Dunn. · source - 2023-10-20construction
Construction Review Online reports Meta restarted work at Temple and Kuna after halting globally to redesign data centers for denser GPU installations for AI applications. · source - 2023-10-23construction
Construction Dive reports JE Dunn resumed construction on Meta's Temple data center after the December 2022 pause; Meta says the AI-optimized redesign is 31% less expensive and takes half the time to build; completion shifted from 2025 to 2026. · source - 2025-04-04coverage
GovTech reports Minnesota-based Oppidan Investment Co. purchased 10 acres from the Temple Economic Development Corp. in March 2025 and plans a $31 million, 61,554-square-foot data center at 2325 Eberhardt Road directly across from Meta's campus. · source - 2026-07-22operational
Meta officially opens its $1.2 billion AI-optimized data center on Industrial Boulevard in Temple; the 760,000-square-foot, two-building campus supports nearly 100 operations jobs and employed over 1,200 trade workers at peak construction. · source - 2026-07-22incentive
At the opening event Meta announced a $400,000 grant as part of $1.7 million in total direct funding to Bell County-area schools and nonprofits, plus $8 million in local public water and wastewater improvements. · source - 2026-07-30coverage
Spectrum News reports the Temple facility is Meta's first AI-optimized data center globally to go online; Meta's Bradley Davis says it uses a closed-loop liquid cooling system requiring zero water for most of the year; Joe Royer of Temple Stands Together community opposition group raised concerns about water consumption, power demand, and heat island effects. · source - 2026-08-05coverage
Texas Scorecard reports Meta declined to specify exact water and power requirements for the Temple facility; community opposition voiced on Meta's Facebook page with commenters stating they do not want the data center. · source
Find the paper trail
Find the paper trail (0 filed · 11 places to look)
State environmental permits
Backup generators, water withdrawal and stormwater are permitted by the state, usually earlier and in more detail than anything filed locally.
- Texas TCEQ — Air Permits DivisionThe program page: which permits this state requires, and the office that issues them.
- TCEQ Central RegistrySearchable public filings — search the operator, the shell LLC on the deed, and the address.
County & town filings
The rezoning application, site plan, traffic and noise studies, staff report and every revision.
- Search Temple planning filingssearchPlanning departments post application files under many different names. Find the department, then ask the clerk for the application number — that number unlocks everything else.
- Search Temple property records / GISsearchThe parcel record names the buying LLC and the sale date, which is what ties an anonymous filing to an operator.
Utility & grid records
The electricity request is filed with the grid operator and the utility long before the town hears about it — and states the real load.
- ERCOT (Texas) — interconnection queueRequested megawatts, queue position and target in-service date. The MW here is the real number; the one at the town meeting is often phase one.
- Public Utility Commission of Texas — docket searchSpecial contracts, large-load tariffs and rate cases are docketed here. Testimony and exhibits are public, and are usually more candid than the press release.
- FERC eLibraryFederal filings: transmission agreements, interconnection service agreements, and co-location disputes.
- Search the serving utility for a will-serve lettersearchThe will-serve or load-service letter is the utility's own written commitment. Ask the utility and the PUC for it by name — it is frequently the first document to exist.
Federal databases
Works anywhere, and covers the operator's record at its other sites.
- EPA ECHO facility searchEvery federally-reported air, water and waste permit at a facility, plus its inspection and violation history. Search by address or draw a radius around the site. This project's locality centres on 31.110, -97.370 — search that point with a 5-mile radius.
- EPA EnvirofactsThe same underlying records, queryable by county — useful for 'what else is permitted near this site' rather than one facility.
- EPA Facility Registry ServiceResolves the shell LLC on a permit to the facility it belongs to. Worth a look when the filing name means nothing locally.
These are places to look, not evidence that anything has been filed. Links were checked on 2026-08-21; search links are queries, not records. What to ask for.
Recent news
4 stories tracked since 2026-08-16 across 3 outlets. 3× A community is pushing back on a nearby data center. 1× Water use for cooling is straining the local supply. Most recent: “Rowan’s $4.2 billion Temple data center campus advances as water, power questions persist” (The Killeen Daily Herald, 2026-09-13).
- Rowan’s $4.2 billion Temple data center campus advances as water, power questions persist
- Meta awards grants to Temple College as it faces public backlash for its data centers
- Temple approves new data center rules as residents push for stronger protections
- Temple data centers respond to Gov. Abbott’s new standards to protect local communities
Automated news aggregation, not human-verified — follow each link to the original outlet. Part of the story tracker, 4 headlines archived.
Around here
- Texas briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts.
Other tracked projects in Texas
- OpenAI Stargate Milam — Milam County, 37 mi
- BCG Cedar Creek Campus — Cedar Creek (Bastrop County), 71 mi Awaiting decision
- Project Red and Project Yellow — Hood County (Granbury area), 95 mi In review
- Google Midlothian — Midlothian, 96 mi Under construction
- Compass Datacenters Red Oak campus — Red Oak (Ellis County), 103 mi Approved
Cite this page: GridWatch AI, “Meta Temple”, aigridwatch.com/projects/meta-temple, retrieved 2026-10-11.
As of August 2026 (2m ago) · changes weekly — re-check before citing
A working set of identified proposals a community can track, not a census — most of the country's activity is not in here yet. Pennsylvania is the exception: its rows are synced from PA DEP's own data-center permit tracker, so the state's coverage is close to complete and carries the permit trail with it. **Each row carries its own provenance.** Rows showing a verification date link to reporting or the governing body's own record and were read on that date; rows marked *unverified* have no source on record — a lead to check, not a fact to cite. **Stage is derived, not asserted.** *Hearing scheduled*, *Awaiting decision*, *Approved* and *Withdrawn* are computed from each row's milestone dates on every rebuild, so a hearing date that has passed stops reading 'scheduled'. Hearings get moved and projects re-file under new names — treat a scheduled date as the earliest to act by, and confirm with the clerk before relying on it. Leads are mined into data/project_candidates.json and promoted here only after a human reads a primary source.
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