Oppidan Investment Co., a Minnesota-based developer, will break ground on the $31 million project in mid-July, according to a filing with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. It aims to complete the 61,554-square-foot center by mid-October.
According to property records, Oppidan bought 10 acres at 2325 Eberhardt Road from the Temple Economic Development Corp. in March.
The development will be across from Meta's hyperscale data center campus, which is under construction. That $800 million development spans 393 acres at Eberhardt Road and Industrial Boulevard and will encompass about 900,000 square feet.
Meta broke ground on the 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 their growth has boomed in recent years in the Austin-San Antonio area. According to commercial real estate firm CBRE, it is among the fastest-growing data center markets in the country.
The Dallas-Fort Worth metro area is the second-largest data center market in the U.S., while Northern Virginia is the largest.
Major tech companies and developers including Google, Amazon and Microsoft are increasingly turning to Texas for sites for large-scale data center projects. The state also is the launching pad for Stargate, a joint venture including OpenAI, Oracle Corp. and SoftBank that says it's investing as much as $500 billion across the U.S. in infrastructure tied to artificial intelligence. Construction of data centers and power generation tied to the project began in 2022 at a site near Abilene.
Oppidan has another Texas data center project in El Paso. The development firm filed for the $27.1 million data center project there in September. That data center also is planned to be about 61,500 square feet.
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