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Rowan Project Temple (Bell County)

Rowan Project Temple (Bell County)

Construction
Confirmed

Jurisdiction: US — Texas (ERCOT)

~700 acres on Bob White Road, south Temple, Bell County — Rowan's largest Texas project; Oncor power partnership; operations expected 2027; $3B green debt financing closed May 2026. DISTINCT from Meta Temple (northwest Temple).

Capacity
GPUs (est.)
Capex
Announced
Target operational

Delivery health score

67.8 /100
67.8/100

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

Schedule

85 /100
85/100

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 Rowan Project Temple (Bell County) No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Infrastructure baseline 70 Rowan Project Temple (Bell County) No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory baseline 70 Rowan Project Temple (Bell County) No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule baseline 80 Rowan Project Temple (Bell County) 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 (2026-01-05).

Milestones

  1. Groundbreaking

    Achieved

    Groundbreaking · Actual:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
Oncor
Utility Provider
Rowan Digital Infrastructure
Developer

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. Data Center Dynamics · Jan 6, 2026 · backs: actual date, status

    https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/rowan-starts-work-on-300mw-data-center-in-temple-texas/

Signals

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

  1. · Data Center Dynamics