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Rowan Project Temple
Temple, Bell County, Texas · All 4 Rowan Digital Infrastructure sites
Rowan Project Temple is a data center under construction in Temple, Texas (Bell County), operated by Rowan Digital Infrastructure. The public record puts it at announced 2026, 300 MW planned, 700 acres, a reported $700 million investment. It has documented support and documented opposition on record.
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Facility record
Under construction
- Operator
- Rowan Digital Infrastructure
- Facility type
- Data center, AI use confirmed
- Location
- Temple, Bell County, TX
- Coordinates
- 31.0982, -97.3428
- Power capacity
- 300 MW planned
- Land
- 700 acres
- Investment
- $700 million
- Announced
- 2026
- Utility
- Oncor
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Closed loop
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- Not established from a public source
- Public subsidy
- City of Temple property-tax abatement (Chapter 312) - reported 50% of city property tax for 10 years per construction phase (Killeen Daily Herald); project generates ~$7M/yr during abatement years and ~$12M/yr fully on the tax rolls (City of Temple), City of Temple, TX, 2025
- Community reception
- Mixed reception
- Source confidence
- Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation
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.
- 2026Under constructionRowan Digital began construction on a 300 MW data center in Temple, Bell County; $3B financing secured, operations targeted 2027 Source: Rowan Digital Infrastructure
Opposition and litigation at this site
Partly. Both documented support and documented opposition to Rowan Project Temple in Temple, Bell County, Texas appear in the record, with no clear majority position. Temple City Council approved unanimously and Bell County supported; organized resident opposition (town halls, council testimony) raised concerns over an undisclosed additional Rowan campus, water/grid/noise, and the abatement.
How the community has taken it
Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: mixed reception means documented support and documented opposition both exist with no clear majority position on record.
Temple City Council approved unanimously and Bell County supported; organized resident opposition (town halls, council testimony) raised concerns over an undisclosed additional Rowan campus, water/grid/noise, and the abatement. Rowan held a March 2026 open house and community partnerships. The named tenant is undisclosed ('top global technology company'); opposition speculates Meta, unconfirmed.
Power and water
Power secured via a partnership with Oncor (ERCOT grid); no on-site generation documented.
City of Temple requires closed-loop cooling for data-center projects; Project Temple's domestic water use is contractually capped at 4,000 gal/day (a contractual requirement, not an estimate) with no ongoing cooling-water withdrawal. The full utility-services agreement was withheld by the City in response to a records request.
Public money on the record
| Program | Amount | Granted by | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Temple property-tax abatement (Chapter 312) - reported 50% of city property tax for 10 years per construction phase (Killeen Daily Herald); project generates ~$7M/yr during abatement years and ~$12M/yr fully on the tax rolls (City of Temple) | Not established | City of Temple, TX | 2025 |
Notes on the record
300 MW campus in Temple, Bell County; $3B financing secured, operations targeted 2027. Distinct from Rowan's separately-tracked Frederick, MD campus. Coordinates are the Temple area centroid. The '$3B' figure is green debt financing (May 2026), not campus capex; the abatement cites a ~$700M minimum investment floor -> investmentUsd omitted. ~600 construction / ~40 permanent jobs projected (abatement requires >=48 permanent) -> jobs honest-zero.
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.
- Permanent jobs promised
Which document closes each gap
- Permanent jobs promised
- The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
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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.
- Meta Temple Data Center · Temple · Meta4 mi · Operating · 152 MW
- Project Merlin (Helios II) · McGregor · Galaxy Digital24 mi · Proposed · 3.5 GW · Contested
- Stargate Milam County Campus · OpenAI / SoftBank (SB Energy)28 mi · Under construction · 1.2 GW · Supported
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Rowan Project Temple data center in Temple?
Partly. Both documented support and documented opposition to Rowan Project Temple in Temple, Bell County, Texas appear in the record, with no clear majority position. Temple City Council approved unanimously and Bell County supported; organized resident opposition (town halls, council testimony) raised concerns over an undisclosed additional Rowan campus, water/grid/noise, and the abatement.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Rowan Project Temple data center?
No lawsuit over Rowan Project Temple appears in the record we track as of September 8, 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 Rowan Project Temple use?
No water withdrawal figure for Rowan Project Temple is on record here. Cooling is recorded as closed_loop, which is the strongest available clue: closed loop and air cooled plant draw far less than evaporative cooling. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.
Who operates Rowan Project Temple, and how big is it?
Rowan Digital Infrastructure is the operator on record. We hold 4 sites for that company across the registry. Capacity on record is 300 MW. The site is recorded at 700 acres.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Rowan Project Temple," updated September 8, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/rowan-temple-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/rowan-temple-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.Rowan powers Texas growth as construction begins on 300 MW Temple data center · Rowan Digital Infrastructure · retrieved July 7, 2026
- 2.City of Temple - Data Center Development FAQ (closed-loop cooling, 4,000 gpd cap) · City of Temple · retrieved July 8, 2026
- 3.Third Rowan data center; minimum $700 million investment; Temple withholds utility records · Killeen Daily Herald · retrieved July 8, 2026
- 4.Temple residents raise concerns over proposed Rowan data center expansion · KXXV · retrieved July 8, 2026
- 5.Temple, 300 MW Hyperscale Data Center Campus (operator portfolio page) · Rowan Digital Infrastructure · retrieved August 26, 2026
- 6.Temple | 300 MW Hyperscale Data Center Campus | Texas · Rowan Digital Infrastructure · retrieved September 8, 2026
- 7.Rowan Digital Infrastructure seeks approval for 6th and final data center in Temple · KWTX · retrieved September 8, 2026
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