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Meta Temple Data Center

Meta Temple Data Center

Commissioned
Confirmed

Jurisdiction: US — Texas (ERCOT)

386-acre greenfield, northwest Temple, Bell County — three buildings, 750,000+ sq ft, completed 2026 per the GC. Meta's 21st global DC. DISTINCT from Rowan Project Temple (south Temple).

Capacity
GPUs (est.)
Capex
Announced
Target operational

Delivery health score

61.5 /100
61.5/100

Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: scheduled

Schedule

60 /100
60/100

Regulatory

70 /100
70/100

Infrastructure

70 /100
70/100

Capital

40 /100
40/100

Why this score — factor breakdown

Each factor below contributed to the current score. Contributions are rubric weights from methodology prs-v0.1; every factor cites the record it is derived from.

Dimension
Factor
Contribution
Cites
Narrative
Capital baseline 40 Meta Temple Data Center No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Infrastructure baseline 70 Meta Temple Data Center No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory baseline 70 Meta Temple Data Center No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule baseline 80 Meta Temple Data Center No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Groundbreaking Milestone "Groundbreaking" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2022-04-01).
Schedule staleness decay -25 Meta Temple Data Center Newest schedule evidence is 2022-04-01 (freshness window 6 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).

Milestones

  1. Groundbreaking

    Achieved

    Groundbreaking · Actual:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
Meta
Owner
JE Dunn Construction
General Contractor

Sources & citations

Every substantive field on this record is backed by a canonical claim from a cited source document, graded on the E1 (strongest) – E5 (weakest) evidence ladder.

  1. JE Dunn Construction · backs: actual date, status

    https://jedunn.com/projects/meta-temple-data-center/

Signals

Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.

  1. JE Dunn Construction