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Meta Fort Worth Data Center

Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas · All 28 Meta sites · Every Meta case on our tracker

OperatingNo reception on recordAI likelyRecord updated July 25, 2026

Meta Fort Worth Data Center is an operating data center in Fort Worth, Texas (Tarrant County), operated by Meta. The public record puts it at announced 2015, 200 acres, a reported $1.5 billion investment.

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Facility record

Operating

Operator
Meta
Facility type
Data center, AI use likely
Location
Fort Worth, Tarrant County, TX
Coordinates
32.9844, -97.2618 (approximate)
Power capacity
Not established from a public source
Land
200 acres
Investment
$1.5 billion
Announced
2015
Utility
Oncor
Power source
Wind
Cooling
Not established from a public source
Water use
Not established from a public source
Jobs
200 permanent; 1,200 construction
Public subsidy
Fort Worth 20-yr real/personal-property tax grant + Tarrant County 10-yr abatement (up to 60% real/personal property, 40% Hospital District), $147 million, Fort Worth / Tarrant County, TX, 2015
Community reception
No reception on record
Source confidence
Reported by at least one credible outlet or filing

Timeline from the record

Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.

  1. 2017
    Operating
    Broke ground 2015, began serving traffic 2017; ~200-acre campus, expanded since. Source: Baxtel

Opposition and litigation at this site

Nothing on record as of July 25, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Meta Fort Worth Data Center in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.

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Power and water

Facebook/Meta signed a 2015 PPA for the 200 MW Shannon Wind Farm in Clay County, TX (~90 mi from the site) specifically to power the new Fort Worth data center; the project delivers via an Oncor Electric Delivery substation.

Public money on the record

ProgramAmountGranted byYear
Fort Worth 20-yr real/personal-property tax grant + Tarrant County 10-yr abatement (up to 60% real/personal property, 40% Hospital District)$147 millionFort Worth / Tarrant County, TX2015

Notes on the record

Meta (Facebook) data center at 4500 Like Way, Fort Worth, Tarrant County (near TX-170 and Park Vista Blvd), broke ground 2015, began serving traffic in 2017, on a ~200-acre campus, heavily expanded since (with an announced AI-driven expansion). DISTINCT from Meta's tracked El Paso, TX campus. No site-specific IT-load MW is disclosed. Coordinates are an approximate geocode of the disclosed Like Way address; a county-parcel pass could upgrade precision to exact.

What the record does not establish, and the document that would

In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.

  • Power capacity in megawatts
  • Cooling method and water use
  • How the community has received it
Which document closes each gap
Power capacity in megawatts
The utility's large load service agreement, the interconnection request in the grid operator's queue, or the electrical site plan in the permit file.
Cooling method and water use
The water service agreement, any groundwater appropriation permit, and the mechanical narrative in the site plan.
How the community has received it
Planning commission and governing body minutes, public comment records, and any petition or lawsuit filed in the county.

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Our reporting on this site

Other sites within 30 miles

Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.

Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the Meta Fort Worth Data Center in Fort Worth?

Nothing on record as of July 25, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Meta Fort Worth Data Center in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Meta Fort Worth Data Center?

No lawsuit over Meta Fort Worth Data Center appears in the record we track as of July 25, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.

How much water does Meta Fort Worth Data Center use?

No water withdrawal figure for Meta Fort Worth Data Center is on record here. Water use is rarely published voluntarily; it usually surfaces through a utility service agreement or a state withdrawal permit, both of which are public records. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.

Who operates Meta Fort Worth Data Center, and how big is it?

Meta is the operator on record. We hold 28 sites for that company across the registry. No capacity figure is on record for this site. The site is recorded at 200 acres.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Meta Fort Worth Data Center," updated July 25, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/meta-fort-worth-tx.

Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.32.0 (September 7, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/meta-fort-worth-tx, retrieved September 14, 2026.

Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.

Sources for this record

As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.

  1. 1.Facebook Fort Worth Data Center, 4500 Like Way, opened 2017, ~200 acres, fully operational · Baxtel · retrieved July 19, 2026
  2. 2.Fort Worth Data Center info sheet · Meta Data Centers · retrieved July 19, 2026
  3. 3.Fortune - Facebook is building a huge wind-powered data center in Texas · retrieved July 24, 2026
  4. 4.Power Technology - Shannon Wind Farm, Clay County, Texas · retrieved July 24, 2026
  5. 5.Data Center Knowledge, Reports: $1B Facebook Data Center Project Underway in Texas (2015) · retrieved July 25, 2026

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