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Meta Temple Data Center

Canonical Texas Hyperscaler Anchor

Meta's hyperscale data center at Temple in Bell County is the canonical Texas hyperscaler anchor. The multi-billion-dollar campus is one of Meta's largest US data center operations, supporting the company's social platform infrastructure, AI training and inference workloads, and broader Meta cloud capacity. The campus sits along the Austin-Waco I-35/I-14 corridor between the Austin metro and Killeen-Fort Cavazos, drawing power from ERCOT through Oncor and water from Bell County municipal authorities, with substantial fiber backbone connectivity tying it to Meta's broader US data center network.

What the Anchor Brings to the Convergence

Meta Temple's campus represents one of Texas's largest hyperscale AI compute deployments, contributing to ERCOT load growth that drives broader Texas energy generation buildout including Project Matador's coupled-nuclear-and-AI architecture, Permian-basin gas-turbine generation expansion, and the renewable-plus-storage scale-up across West Texas wind and Gulf Coast solar. Meta's commitment to Temple validated Bell County as a hyperscaler-grade data center site, with subsequent operator interest extending the regional data center concentration along the I-35 corridor.

The supplier ring around Meta Temple is diffuse-utility-substrate consumption, not co-located operational interdependence.

Suppliers and Co-Located Infrastructure

The Meta Temple supplier-and-co-located-infrastructure includes 62 suppliers across the supply chain — Tier 1A AI compute equipment (NVIDIA AI silicon, server systems from Dell and Supermicro, networking from Arista and Coherent, HBM memory, storage from Western Digital and Samsung), Tier 1B campus and utility infrastructure (Oncor substation, Bell County water authority, fiber backbone operators, on-site backup generation), Tier 2 construction and operations (cooling and HVAC from Vertiv and others, power distribution from Schneider Electric, civil construction, security operators).

Constraints and Considerations

Power demand growth is the most important constraint on Meta Temple's continued scale-up. Hyperscaler AI training and inference workloads have driven data center power consumption growth at rates that ERCOT planning was not designed for; Meta Temple's continued capacity expansion depends on grid-side generation and transmission additions that Texas is building but at rates that may not match operator demand. Water consumption is meaningful at the campus scale but secondary to power.

Watching Items

Meta Temple's primary forward-looking trajectory is capacity expansion phasing — additional buildings, additional power and cooling capacity, and the broader question of whether Meta extends its Texas data center footprint beyond Temple to additional sites. The Texas hyperscaler data center buildout pattern more broadly is the relevant watching-items frame: whether Microsoft Stargate Abilene reaches first operational milestones on schedule, whether additional hyperscaler announcements land in Texas through 2026-2028, and whether Texas grid scale-up keeps pace with hyperscaler demand growth.

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