Temple TX Data Centers:
What the Boom Means for Home Prices
Meta’s Temple campus is operating. Rowan’s six planned buildings are council-approved; two Project Temple buildings are under construction, and site grading was under way on the Stampede campus in late August 2026. For a house nearby, those differences matter more than any headline dollar figure.
How will Temple TX’s data centers affect home prices?
The records reviewed for this page (City, County, state and company sources checked September 24–25, 2026) do not show that Temple’s data centers have raised or lowered home prices, and this page makes no price or rent forecast. Meta’s campus in Enterprise Industrial Park is operating. Rowan’s six buildings in Synergy Industrial Park are council-approved; two Project Temple buildings are under construction, and site grading was under way on the Stampede campus in late August 2026. For a specific Temple house, weigh its own evidence: the nearest project and its stage, the approved noise, lighting, buffer and traffic conditions for that land, recent comparable sales, and the home’s total monthly cost.
- Operating: Meta Temple Data Center, which Meta said was serving traffic on July 22, 2026.
- Under construction: two Rowan Project Temple buildings, per the utility agreement executed September 22, 2026.
- Site work observed: grading on the Stampede campus, zoned at 3151 Tower Road (Ordinance 2026-0002-O), photographed August 29, 2026; no Stampede building is documented as under construction.
- Approved only: the Lasso building and Ranger’s one building show no construction start in the records reviewed.
- Finish date disputed: Rowan targeted 2027 for Project Temple; the City of Temple expects the first phase in 2029.
Which Temple Data Centers Are Operating, Under Construction or Only Approved?
“Data center Temple TX” covers several separate projects at different stages. The City of Temple sorts them into two industrial parks and says each project must complete its own review, public hearings and required approvals; approval of one item “does not automatically approve any remaining items.” The City also says its list covers all current or proposed data centers it knows of (City Projects Overview, checked September 25, 2026).
Sources: Meta announcement (July 22, 2026); amended Temple/Lasso utility agreement (executed September 22, 2026); Rowan Projects page (checked September 25, 2026); Rowan Temple portfolio page (captured September 24, 2026); City of Temple tax-abatement article (September 1, 2026).
Temple Data-Center Projects as of September 25, 2026
Figures appear as each source states them. “Announced” is not spent, and a City label can lag a council vote.
| Project | Where | Announced investment | Stage on record |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rowan — Project Temple City: Phase 1 (“Project Kayak”) and Phase 1B (the Lasso building) | Synergy Industrial Park | $2.1B minimum private investment, 3 buildings (Rowan) | Two buildings under construction (utility agreement, executed September 22, 2026); groundbreaking March 2, 2026 (Rowan); Lasso building approved by the City Council September 17, 2026 (City recap). City label: “Proposed/Under Development.” |
| Rowan — Project Stampede City: Phase 2 | Synergy Industrial Park | $1.4B minimum private investment, 2 buildings (Rowan) | Rowan: “approved in Winter 2026”; utility agreement executed September 22, 2026; site work (grading) observed on the campus, zoned at 3151 Tower Road, in a first-party aerial photo of August 29, 2026; no building documented as under construction. City label: “Proposed.” |
| Rowan — Project Ranger City: Phase 3 | Synergy Industrial Park | $700M minimum private investment, 1 building (Rowan) | Rowan: “approved in Spring 2026”; utility agreement executed September 22, 2026; no construction start in the records reviewed. City label: “Proposed.” |
| Meta Temple Data Center City lists it under Polmer | Enterprise Industrial Park | More than $1.2B (Meta) | Operating: Meta said on July 22, 2026 that it is “now serving traffic.” City: “completed and operational (2026).” |
| Oppidan — Connect Data Center | Enterprise Industrial Park; 2313 Eberhardt Road (TDLR) | $31M estimated cost (TDLR registration) | City: approved 2024. The TDLR registration (“5MW Temple Data Center”) lists an estimated completion date of October 16, 2026; a registration estimate is not a certificate of occupancy. |
| Rowan — Moriah (older building) | Along Bob White Road (Rowan) | Not stated | Operational 2023; tenant left late 2024; Rowan plans to convert it to a warehouse (Rowan FAQ). |
How to Read the Temple Data-Center Numbers
- Rowan’s figures are announced minimums. Rowan’s Projects page, checked September 25, 2026, lists $2.1 billion for Project Temple’s three buildings, $1.4 billion for Stampede’s two and $700 million for Ranger’s one: “minimum private investment” of $4.2 billion for its six Temple buildings. That is not money spent or taxable value.
- The City’s commitment uses a different unit. The City of Temple’s abatement requires at least $700 million of investment and 40 full-time jobs per abatement phase. Rowan’s older portfolio page called the Temple campus “a minimum $700 million investment”; the current Projects page says $2.1 billion for Project Temple. This page shows each figure with its source instead of reconciling them.
- Operating and planned money stay separate. Meta’s “more than $1.2 billion” describes a campus that is running; Rowan’s $4.2 billion is a prospective minimum. Adding them would mix an operating facility with plans, so this page does not.
- A tax registration is not a lease. The Texas Comptroller’s data-center list names Polmer LLC as the occupant of Rowan’s “Temple Data Center” (effective January 21, 2026) and “Stampede Data Center” (effective May 21, 2026), and the City pairs Polmer with Meta. The registry does not publish lease terms, which building will be used or an opening date, and Rowan’s FAQ says its customer is identified closer to completion.
What Do Temple’s Data-Center Approvals Cover, and What Is Built?
Annexation and zoning, a development agreement, a tax abatement, a utility agreement, a building permit, construction and occupancy are separate steps. The City of Temple’s September 17 council recap, published September 18, 2026, documents approvals; it does not certify finished construction, every building permit, occupancy or an opening date.
- October 16, 2026: Oppidan’s estimated completion date on its TDLR registration.
- October 31, 2026: first scheduled water tranche for Project Temple’s two buildings under construction.
- Not yet in the records reviewed: the City’s official minutes, with vote counts, for the September 17, 2026 council meeting.
- 2027 (Rowan) or 2029 (City): Project Temple first-phase completion; the City estimates full buildout in fiscal year 2031.
The City of Temple’s explainer says an abatement “temporarily reduces a portion of a company’s property taxes”; the rest is still paid (City article, September 1, 2026). Bell County’s order authorizes abating “a percentage” of the increase in taxable value of certain Synergy Park property without stating the percentage or term, so this page does not assume the City’s terms apply to the County.
Neither agreement sets a homeowner’s bill. A Temple home’s taxes still depend on its appraised value, its exemptions and the rates each taxing unit adopts; the Temple property-tax guide walks through an address-level estimate.
Where Are Temple’s Data Centers Located?
The City of Temple sorts the projects into two industrial parks. Its Industrial Park Development Areas map labels Enterprise Park “North Industrial” and Synergy Park “South Industrial.” Meta and Oppidan are in Enterprise Industrial Park; every Rowan phase is in Synergy Industrial Park. Rowan describes its sites as industrial land in east Temple.
Official Location Descriptions for Temple’s Data Centers
- Rowan Project Temple (City Phase 1A): the 2025 annexation ordinance addresses the land as 1707 and 2351 Bob White Road (Ordinance 2025-0038). The City’s Rowan Projects Map shows it east of Bob White Road and south of Tower Road.
- Lasso building (City Phase 1B): “generally located northwest of FM 3117 and east of Bob White Road” (City staff presentation, September 3, 2026).
- Rowan Project Stampede (City Phase 2): “adjacent to and north of the intersection of Southeast H.K. Dodgen Loop and the Burlington Northern Santa Fe rail line” (Ordinance 2026-0016-O, Tax Abatement Reinvestment Zone No. 49).
- Rowan Project Ranger (City Phase 3): “east of Highway 190 and both north and south of FM 3117” (City notice for Tax Abatement Reinvestment Zone No. 50).
- Meta Temple Data Center: Enterprise Industrial Park (City project list). The sources reviewed do not give a street address.
- Oppidan Connect Data Center: 2313 Eberhardt Road (TDLR registration), Enterprise Industrial Park (City).
- Rowan Moriah: along Bob White Road (Rowan FAQ).
Acreage is left out on purpose: the annexation, zoning, reinvestment-zone and utility documents each describe a different legal boundary, so their acreage figures are not interchangeable. For parcel lines, use the City’s own maps on its Projects Overview page (tabs “Rowan Projects Map” and “Industrial Park Development Areas,” captured for this page September 25, 2026).
How Much Water Will Rowan’s Temple Data Centers Use?
Two different numbers get mixed up: the one-time initial charge that fills a closed cooling loop, and the routine domestic water the buildings use each day. The utility agreements executed September 22, 2026 set both for each Rowan phase in Temple.
“Closed loop” describes the cooling water, not every gallon on site. The loop is filled once and reused; the buildings still use ordinary domestic water every day.
The City of Temple says a closed-loop system does not require daily make-up water because evaporation does not occur within the system.
City of Temple FAQ: a closed-loop cooling system “does not require ‘make-up’ or recharge water on a daily basis because evaporation does not occur within the system.” Rowan FAQ: the system is “designed to withstand extreme temperatures, including Texas heat waves, without additional water.”
The records reviewed for this page include no independent test of how the cooling performs in extreme heat, and they do not identify Project Temple’s specific heat-rejection equipment. Rowan’s statement is a design claim.
The loop diagram shows how closed-loop cooling works in general; it is not an engineering drawing of Project Temple. Gallon figures: executed utility agreements (September 22, 2026) and the City of Temple’s protections FAQ (captured September 24, 2026).
The Project Temple agreement expects the initial charge to last about 10 years but acknowledges more water may be needed. The City will allow additional charges at its “sole reasonable discretion,” considering weather and peak demand, and agrees they “will not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned, or delayed.” The City’s FAQ adds that the developments are water customers subject to its drought contingency plan, and its September 18 recap estimates that at full buildout all three phases together will use less than 1% of the water City customers use each day. For scale, the entire 4.5-million-gallon charge equals about one quarter of one day of the City’s average treated-water demand (4.5 million ÷ 18 million).
How Do You Check a Specific House Near a Temple Data Center?
Use these seven steps before an offer on any house near Enterprise or Synergy Industrial Park. Each names the record to ask for; none requires guessing what a data center will do to prices.
Match the address to the City’s Rowan Projects Map or Industrial Park map, then check the project’s stage in the table above: operating, under construction or approved only. A listing that mentions “the data center” should say which project and which milestone.
Rowan’s phases are zoned Planned Development–Light Industrial with project-specific conditions. The City says approved projects carry enforceable conditions for noise, lighting, landscaping, buffering, traffic and site design. Under code changes adopted September 17, 2026, future data centers need a Conditional Use Permit to develop in light- or heavy-industrial districts, so check the zoning of any vacant industrial land near the house.
Before a building permit, the City requires a Noise Mitigation Plan by a qualified acoustical engineer that evaluates predicted sound levels at property lines; before occupancy, a post-construction acoustical report. These show the approved plan, not the sound at a particular house.
The City requires a preliminary traffic study, covering construction and operational traffic, before plat approval. Rowan says photometric (lighting) plans will be submitted to the City and that designated construction routes are among its mitigation tools. Ask which roads near the house carry construction trucks.
Rowan says it plans a temporary natural-gas power solution for a portion of the campus until permanent utility service is available. The City’s September 2026 abatement amendment discontinues abatement benefits for any period temporary generation runs beyond the allowable period. Near Project Temple, ask where temporary generation would sit.
Go at the times you would normally be home, such as evenings, nights and weekends, and once during weekday construction hours. Listen and look from the house and from the nearest project boundary.
Use recent comparable sales for that home type and location, the inspection, property-tax and insurance estimates, any HOA dues, and your own budget and timeline. Do not add a premium for a nearby project or count on rent from construction crews.
Where to Get the Records for a Temple Address
- Project maps and status: City of Temple Data Center Projects Overview (tabs “Rowan Projects Map” and “Industrial Park Development Areas”).
- Agreements and ordinances: City Documents & Agreements page, with the development, utility service and abatement agreements.
- Noise, traffic and water rules: City Community Protections FAQ.
- Votes and upcoming items: City Council agendas and minutes.
- Plans not posted online: the City’s open records request portal.
- County action: Bell County Clerk public records search (Commissioners Court minutes; Minute Order 303/25 is dated October 14, 2025).
- State registrations: Texas Comptroller data-center lists; the TDLR registration for Oppidan’s project.
To price the house itself, the Temple homebuyer guide covers budgets and search steps, and the property-tax guide covers the tax line.
What Should Temple Home Buyers Do About the Data Centers?
Treat a nearby data center as a property-specific factor to check, not as a price signal in either direction.
If a Temple Listing Mentions the Data Centers
Ask which project it means, which milestone is documented (approved, under construction or operating) and the source. A nearby project’s announced investment is not evidence of that house’s value; the house’s own comparable sales are.
If You Are Choosing Between Similar Temple Houses
Compare them on recent comparable sales, condition, inspection findings and total monthly cost, then run the checklist for each. The records reviewed here do not support paying more, or asking for less, because of distance to a data center alone.
If the House Backs Onto Open or Industrial Land
Check the zoning and any approved conditions for that land, and plan for the view to change. Rowan’s phases already have Planned Development–Light Industrial zoning; under the September 17, 2026 code changes, a future data center elsewhere would need a Conditional Use Permit in light- or heavy-industrial districts.
Taylor Dasch, a real estate agent with EG Realty in Temple, prepared this guide from the public records listed under Sources and Dates and from first-party aerial photographs of the project areas taken August 29, 2026.
It is a research guide for buyers, not a forecast: it does not predict prices, rents or completion dates, and it does not measure noise at any house.
For help applying the checklist to a specific address, use the form at the end of this page or call 254-718-4249. Taylor replies personally; there is no automated report.
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Temple TX Data Centers: Frequently Asked Questions
Will the data centers raise home prices in Temple, TX?
The records reviewed for this page, checked September 24–25, 2026, do not show that Temple’s data centers have raised or lowered home prices, and this page does not forecast either. For a specific house, rely on its recent comparable sales, condition, total monthly cost and the approved conditions for nearby land rather than on a project’s announced investment.
Which Temple data centers are operating now?
Meta’s Temple Data Center is operating: Meta announced on July 22, 2026 that it was serving traffic, and the City of Temple lists it as completed and operational. Rowan’s six planned buildings are council-approved, and the utility agreement executed September 22, 2026 refers to two Project Temple buildings as under construction. Site grading was under way on Rowan’s Stampede campus, zoned at 3151 Tower Road, in a first-party aerial photo of August 29, 2026; no Stampede building is documented as under construction. Rowan says the tenant of its older Moriah building left in late 2024 and that it plans to convert that building to a warehouse.
Where are the data centers in Temple, TX?
The City of Temple places them in two industrial parks. Meta’s campus and Oppidan’s smaller project, registered at 2313 Eberhardt Road, are in Enterprise Industrial Park, which the City’s map labels North Industrial. All of Rowan’s phases are in Synergy Industrial Park, labeled South Industrial; the 2025 annexation ordinance for Project Temple lists 1707 and 2351 Bob White Road.
When will Rowan’s Temple data center be finished?
Sources disagree. Rowan’s portfolio page, captured September 24, 2026, targeted substantial completion in 2027. The City of Temple said on September 1, 2026 that the first phase is expected to be completed in 2029, and it estimated full buildout of all three Rowan phases in fiscal year 2031. None of these is a guaranteed opening date.
How much water will Rowan’s Temple data centers use?
Under the agreement executed September 22, 2026, Project Temple’s closed-loop cooling takes an initial charge of about 4.5 million gallons for three buildings, expected to last about 10 years, plus an average of 13,800 gallons a day of domestic water (peak 33,600). Stampede and Ranger each have a 3-million-gallon initial charge and average domestic demands of 8,200 and 10,100 gallons a day. Additional charges need the City’s consent.
What tax breaks did Temple and Bell County approve for Rowan?
The City of Temple approved a Chapter 312 abatement on October 2, 2025: 50% of the City’s taxes on the project’s new real and personal property value for 10 calendar years per phase, tied to at least $700 million of investment and 40 full-time jobs per phase. Bell County’s Commissioners Court unanimously authorized a separate abatement agreement with Rowan Temple LLC on October 14, 2025 (Minute Order 303/25); the order does not state the County’s percentage or term.
Is Meta the tenant of Rowan’s Temple data center?
That is not confirmed. The Texas Comptroller’s data-center list names Polmer LLC, which the City of Temple pairs with Meta, as the occupant of Rowan’s Temple and Stampede registrations. That is a tax-registration role, not a published lease, and Rowan says it identifies its customer closer to completion.
How can I check noise near a house by a Temple data center?
Ask the City of Temple for the project’s Noise Mitigation Plan, which must be prepared by a qualified acoustical engineer and evaluate predicted sound levels at property lines before a building permit, and for the post-construction acoustical report required before occupancy. Those show the approved plan, not the sound at a particular house, so also visit at the hours you would normally be home.
Sources and Dates for This Temple Data-Center Guide
Each source below was read for this page; the date shows when it was checked. Where sources disagree (completion dates, investment presentations, first-phase water terms), the page shows both with their dates instead of choosing one.
- City of Temple: Data Center Projects Overview, including the Rowan Projects Map and Industrial Park Development Areas map (checked September 25, 2026); September 17 Council Recap, published September 18, 2026 (checked September 25, 2026); Economic Development & Tax Abatements, September 1, 2026 (checked September 25, 2026); Community Protections FAQ (captured September 24, 2026).
- City agreements: Amended and Restated Utility Services Agreement (Temple and Lasso), executed September 22, 2026 (checked September 25, 2026); Stampede and Ranger utility services agreements and the Chapter 312 abatement agreement (captured September 24, 2026).
- City ordinances and records: Ordinance 2025-0038 (annexation); Ordinance 2025-0039-O (zoning); Ordinance 2026-0016-O (Reinvestment Zone No. 49); amended notice for Reinvestment Zone No. 50; Lasso annexation staff presentation, September 3, 2026; council minutes of November 20, 2025 and April 16, 2026 (all captured September 24, 2026).
- Bell County Clerk: Commissioners Court minutes, October 14, 2025, Minute Order 303/25 (original scan viewed September 25, 2026).
- State of Texas: Comptroller data-center lists (checked September 25, 2026); TDLR registration TABS2025015318 (captured September 24, 2026).
- Meta: “Temple, we are online!”, July 22, 2026 (captured September 24, 2026).
- Rowan: Projects and FAQs pages (checked September 25, 2026); home page and Temple portfolio page (captured September 24, 2026; the portfolio page blocked automated access on September 25).
- Photographs: first-party aerial photographs of the Meta campus, the Bob White Road corridor and southeast Temple, taken August 29, 2026.
Not covered: MLS price analysis, noise or light measurements, parcel surveys, and any forecast of prices, rents or completion dates. The City’s official minutes for the September 17, 2026 meeting were not among the records reviewed.
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