Developer plans new $31 million data center in Temple. Here's what you need to know.
Oppidan Investment Co., a Minnesota-based developer, will break ground on a $31 million data center project at 2325 Eberhardt Road. The data center will be five-megawatts and 62,000 square feet, according to a filing with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. According to property records, Oppidan bought 10 acres from the Temple Economic Development Corporation in March.
The development will be across from Meta's hyperscale data center campus, which is currently under construction. The $800 million development spans 393 acres at the intersection of Eberhardt Road and Industrial Boulevard, and the facility will be about 900,000 square feet.
Meta initially broke ground on its campus in 2022 but construction was paused when the billion-dollar tech company decided to change the design of the complex. Kansas City-based contractor JE Dunn resumed construction on the project in October 2023. According to Meta, the campus will support about 100 operational jobs once completed. Meta has said construction will continue through 2026.
Data centers have cropped up throughout Texas, but especially near Austin in recent years. According to commercial real estate firm CBRE, the Austin-San Antonio area is among the fastest-growing data center markets in the country. The Dallas-Fort Worth metro is the second largest data center market in the U.S., following only Northern Virginia.
More: Texas Senate passes bill to improve grid reliability, ready state for more data centers
Major tech companies and developers have turned to Texas to build these large-scale data center projects, including Google, Amazon, Microsoft and several through the President Donald Trump-backed Stargate venture.
Oppidan has another Texas data center project in El Paso. The development firm filed for a $27.1 million, five-megawatt data center project at at 9879 North Loop Drive in El Paso County in September; that data center is planned to be about 61,555 square feet.
This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: Developer plans new data center across from Meta's in Temple, Texas
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