Rowan Adds to Temple Data Center Locations

Rowan Digital has been given the greenlight by the Temple City Council to get to work on another data center. The Austin Business Journal reports the site will represent a minimum of $700 million in capital investment, along with the creation of 40 full-time jobs and 500 construction jobs. Earlier this year, the company announced that construction is underway on another 300-megawatt (MW) Temple site, with similar capital and employment figures. The newest site will be its third data center announcement, all told, a $2.1 billion investment.

The newest campus will be located in the Synergy Park industrial site. The property is near Temple’s Panda natural gas power plant, a factor crucial to data center operators given their significant power demands.

On its website, Rowan describes itself as a hyperscale build-to-suit data center developer, stating it leases to companies such as Meta Platforms, Microsoft Corp., Amazon.com Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google LLC and Oracle Corp.