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Meta Temple Data Center

Meta lists a data center at Temple, Texas among the sites it operates. It is running; the record holds no sourced date for when it reached that stage.

How much power it needs, how much water it would use and who would use it have not been disclosed.

Last verified · 2 sources, 1 primary · A skeleton record: built from one source, not yet reviewed in depth by a person. · How to read this page

How to read this page. Every fact links to the source it rests on; a number in brackets is its place in the source list. A figure no source gives reads Not disclosed, and nothing is estimated. Where sources give different figures, each is shown with who gave it, and another source's figure never stands in for the record's own. Entries are added and never overwritten; corrections are listed under What happened.

What is known

Each figure as its source gave it. The number in brackets is its place in the source list.

Land
344 acres
third party estimate [2]
Power it would draw
Not disclosed
Water
Not disclosed
Who leads it
Meta
as stated by the source
Who would use it
Not disclosed
Jobs once it runs
Not disclosed
Tax each year
Not disclosed
Every field, with who said it and when (Researcher view)

Impact figures

FieldValueWho says soSourceLast verified
How much power it needs Not disclosed
How much water it would use Not disclosed
How loud it would be Not disclosed
Jobs once it runs Not disclosed
Tax it would pay each year Not disclosed

The record's fields

FieldValueWho says soSourceLast verified
Who is building it Meta as stated by the source October 6, 2026
Who is constructing it Not disclosed
How much land 344 acres third party estimate [2] tdtnews.com October 6, 2026
Where its power comes from Not disclosed
Grid connection Not disclosed
How it is cooled Not disclosed

The developer's figure is what the company said; what a permit allows is the ceiling a permit sets; measured means observed. Water is in gallons a day or a year, whichever the source stated; a tax claim given as a range shows both ends, each linked to the source that gave it.

Still not public, and where it would show up

The record adds each the day a source gives it. Why these documents.

  • Water useA state water right filing or a water supply agreement.
  • Who would use itA lease announcement or a tenant named in a filing.
  • Power the campus would drawA utility or public service commission docket, an interconnection filing, or an air permit for an on site plant.
  • Jobs and taxAn incentive agreement, a county's economic development filing or a fiscal note.

What was decided

Acts of Bell County and Temple about data centers, on the record with their source. A rule about the area is not a decision about this record.

DateWhoDecisionSource
Killeen City would require annexation for a large data center of 50 acres or greater kdhnews.com
Killeen Proposed regulations include electric service approval from ERCOT, ONCOR or others, water and sewer study before approval, setback standardization, decibel and frequency restrictions, and masonry screening kdhnews.com
Killeen Killeen City Council approved 6-1 on Tuesday for staff to draft an ordinance requiring conditional use permit for any future data center kdhnews.com

What happened

  1. · Status: running (the day the page was read; it gives no date of its own)

    Meta lists Meta Temple Data Center at Temple, Texas on its own page of data center locations, read September 14, 2026. [1]

The full Meta Temple Data Center timeline, in order

1 correction to this record

Every correction, with its reason

  1. · the summary of a record items row

    the record's rules: the sentence copied its source, was about its headline or carried a number the card's facts do not; written again from the card's facts, on the editor's word The old and new text.

Every correction on the record is on the corrections page.

The site

Where in Temple is not in the public record. The pin marks the center of Temple, not a building, and the outline is Bell County.

  • This record: Running, ringed
  • data center
  • Dashed edge: the exact site is not in the public record
  • Smaller pins: 53 other published records in Texas
Details
  • this record's location, ringed
  • parcel outline, from the county parcel record
  • city limits, U.S. Census Bureau, on a town level record
  • county boundary

The other pins are the published projects in the same state, each in its stage color. The imagery beneath is the USGS national orthoimagery, public domain, shown so the land around the site can be read.

Where
Temple, Bell County, Texas
How exactly it is located
Town level, the center of the city
The parcel
No parcel outline in the public record
Nearest homes
Not computed for a record placed at a place center
Nearest records
Nearest records are not computed for a record placed at the center of its town.

Comparisons

1 metric with more than one figure

Every figure on the record for the same thing, the record's own or the document's first, each with who gave it, its date and its basis.

Project footprint

1 figure, 1 source
50 acresReported

The Killeen Daily Herald, Sep 16, 2026

Show each source's words
  • 50 acres, The Killeen Daily Herald: Aycock property could potentially be a site for a 50 acre data center

Keep going

The county Bell County 1 project on the record. The state Data centers in Texas Every Texas project, the rules on the record and what comes next.

Questions about this project

7 questions answered from the record

Answered from the rows on this page.

How big is Meta Temple Data Center?

The record has one measure of its size: 344 acres (third party estimate, source). Its power capacity is not disclosed.

Who is building Meta Temple Data Center?

Meta is the developer. No construction contractor is named on the record yet.

Who will use Meta Temple Data Center?

Not disclosed. No source on file names a tenant, says whether the site is single or multi tenant, or states what it is for. The record keeps the use as not disclosed until one does; see Who it serves.

How much power and water does Meta Temple Data Center say it needs?

Power: not disclosed by any source on file. Water: not disclosed by any source on file.

Where does Meta Temple Data Center stand today?

It is running; the date it reached that stage is not sourced, only the day a page was read. The newest entry, read on September 14, 2026: Meta lists Meta Temple Data Center at Temple, Texas on its own page of data center locations, read September 14, 2026. [1]

What has Temple or Bell County decided about it?

Killeen: City would require annexation for a large data center of 50 acres or greater (reported September 16, 2026, source); and Killeen: Proposed regulations include electric service approval from ERCOT, ONCOR or others, water and sewer study before approval, setback standardization, decibel and frequency restrictions, and masonry screening (reported September 16, 2026, source). 3 events are on the county's rows; a rule about the area is not a decision about this record.

What is still unknown about Meta Temple Data Center?

Not disclosed by any source on file: how much power it needs, how much water it would use, how loud it would be, jobs once it runs, tax it would pay each year, who is constructing it, where its power comes from, grid connection, how it is cooled. No missing primary document is listed for this record yet; What the record lacks is where one appears when a person names it.

Sources

Primary documents first: filings, minutes, dockets and official pages. Then reporting. The numbers are the ones the entries above cite.

Primary documents

  1. Meta: Our U.S. data center fleet, Meta, September 14, 2026

Reporting

  1. Meta project expected to resume in late 2023 - Temple Daily Telegram, Temple Daily Telegram, June 24, 2023, local outlet

2 sources on file.

Cite this record

Data Center Record, "Meta Temple Data Center", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/meta-temple-data-center-tx, last verified October 6, 2026.

Last verified , first recorded . Every correction is logged on the corrections page and under What happened.

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Slug
meta-temple-data-center-tx
Status value
operational
Stage
Running
Tier
skeleton
Tags
skeleton
Place id
us/tx/bell-county/temple
Coordinates
31.1051466, -97.3882844
Location precision
city
Location source
U.S. Census Bureau TIGERweb city centroid, public domain
Coordinate source
tigerweb city centroid
Location source number
Not disclosed
Location last verified
September 14, 2026
EPA registry id
Not disclosed
Use type values
not_disclosed
Tenancy value
not_disclosed
Cooling type value
not_disclosed
Capacity basis
not_disclosed
Water basis
not_disclosed, gallons_per_day
Acreage basis
third_party_estimate
Interconnection value
not_disclosed
Capacity, if disclosed
Not disclosed
Rating of the county's rows
Not disclosed
Published
2026-09-14
Last verified
2026-10-06