Meta · Temple, Texas

Meta Temple

231MW

The power of 190,000 US homes.

Drawing power since Dec 2025.

Capital cost
$6.7B
Chips
B300
Users
Meta
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Power over time

facility power · 7 milestones
Every milestone
  1. 1 Apr 2022 — Land clearing begins.
  2. 5 Feb 2023 — A traditional H-shaped Meta data center is partially built.
  3. 1 Apr 2023 — The traditional Meta data center has been demolished mid-construction, in favor of Meta's new AI-optimized design.
  4. 15 Nov 2025 — Building 1 and 2 look complete from outside, with all electrical and cooling equipment installed. Space is cleared for Building 3.
  5. 9 Dec 2025 198 MW Building 1 and 2 are operational. Activity related to the air quality permit (namely, emergency diesel generators) was reported to have started as of 2025-12-09. This is our best estimate, but note that the planned completion date in this regulatory filing is 2026-03-01.
  6. 24 Feb 2026 198 MW Building 3 is under construction. An outline is visible for the building which has similar dimensions to those deployed at the Meta Prometheus site.
  7. 30 Sep 2026 231 MW Building 3 is operational. Based on the stated completion date in this regulatory filing

Every step Epoch planned here on 2 Sep 2026 is still on plan. Planned against reached

Gas made 40% of the power on this site's grid

net generation by fuel · Oct 2025 to Sep 2026

Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Inc. ERCO · balancing authority

  1. Gas 40%
  2. Coal 12%
  3. Nuclear 8%
  4. Wind 24%
  5. Solar 16%
  6. Hydro <1%
  7. Other <1%

The grid of the utilities that serve Bell County, TX. Each grid is a balancing authority. Generation only; imports are excluded. Every grid behind an AI site.

Owners plan 903 MW of new power in Bell County, mostly solar

power plants in Bell County · EIA-860M, September 2026
  1. Chillingham Solar Solar · 350 MW · Dec 2026 · being built · Chillingham Solar LLC
  2. Limewood Bell Renewables Solar Solar · 204 MW · Nov 2026 · being built · Modal Power LLC
  3. Cosper Solar Solar · 148 MW · Nov 2027 · proposed · Gransolar Texas Twenty LLC
  4. Hermes Solar PV Solar · 100 MW · Oct 2026 · being built · Bell 1 Solar, LLC
  5. Hermes Storage BESS Storage · 100 MW · Oct 2026 · being built · Bell 1 Storage, LLC

In service in Bell County today: 2.8 GW. Since January 2023: 1.2 GW added, 0 MW retired. A plant in the same county does not mean it feeds the site. Power plants near every AI site.

Sources

selected by Epoch AI
  1. JE Dunn project page
  2. TDLR filing
  3. TDLR filing

Data: Epoch AI, “AI data centers”, CC BY 4.0, retrieved 22 Oct 2026. Facility power adds cooling and other overhead to the IT power the servers draw. Placed at the centre of Temple. Grid: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Hourly Electric Grid Monitor (Form EIA-930), public domain, retrieved 16 Oct 2026; utilities by county from Form EIA-861 and the U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, public domain. Power plants: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-860M, public domain, inventory as of September 2026. All sources.