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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 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.

Meta Temple's campus represents a typical hyperscaler data center campus. 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

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.

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