# Meta Fort Worth Data Center

ERCOT data center · https://askthegrid.com/assets/facilities/meta-fort-worth-data-center

Meta operates the Fort Worth Data Center, a five-building campus on 170 acres with 2.5 million square feet completed in 2023, supporting Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp workloads. The first phase came online in spring 2017; the campus reports approximately 52 MW utility-service capacity and 24 MW backup-generator capacity. Total project cost reached $1.5 billion.

## Identity and location

- Operating status: operating
- Asset scope: building
- Location: TX
- Operator: Meta (exact asset) — https://datacenters.atmeta.com/asset/fort-worth-data-center-info-sheet/
- Developer: DPR Construction (campus) — https://www.dpr.com/projects/facebook-fort-worth-data-center

## Power and grid context

- Utility service: 52 MW · operating · campus · as of 2026-07-16 — The operating Meta Fort Worth facility can draw up to just under 52 MW of electricity; reported as an approximate campus-level utility-service figure.
- Backup generation: 24 MW · operating · campus · as of 2026-07-16 — Reported backup-generator capacity for the Meta Fort Worth facility.
- ISO/RTO: ERCOT
- Balancing authority: Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT)
- Electric utility: Oncor Electric Delivery; AllianceTexas infrastructure is also identified as being served by Brazos Electric.
- Substation: Separate/supporting electrical substation; the substation name was not identified.

## Development

- Site status: Operating; the first phase was operational in 2017 and the full campus was completed in 2023.
- Site area: 170 acres
- Gross floor area: 2,500,000 square feet
- Buildings: 5
- Construction: Meta's Fort Worth campus was announced and groundbroken on July 7, 2015, initially planned as up to three 250,000-square-foot data centers. Meta later expanded the plan to five buildings after acquiring additional land. The first phase became operational in spring 2017; construction of the final phase began in December 2020, with commercial operation expected in 2022. DPR reports that the overall multi-phase campus was completed in 2023.

## Compute and operations

- Facility classes: hyperscale
- Workloads: Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp
- Operating context: Operating Meta infrastructure: the Fort Worth Data Center became operational in 2017 and supports Meta’s global platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The campus comprises multiple data-center buildings delivered in phases, with critical capacity operated for Meta rather than as a public colocation facility.

## Sources

- [Facebook Fort Worth Data Center](https://baxtel.com/data-center/facebook-fort-worth)
- [Innovative Spaces: A (Photo) Tour of Facebook's Fort Worth Data Center » Dallas Innovates](https://dallasinnovates.com/innovative-spaces-a-photo-tour-of-facebooks-fort-worth-data-center/)
- [Fetched web page](https://datacenters.atmeta.com/asset/fort-worth-data-center-info-sheet/)
- [Meta announces local grant recipients – Dallas Fort Worth Nonprofit Business Journal](https://dfw501c.com/meta-announces-local-grant-recipients/)
- [Update: Facebook announces $750 million Fort Worth data center - The Business Press](https://fortworthbusiness.com/real-estate/update-facebook-announces-750-million-fort-worth-data-center/)
- [Fort Worth's growth, data centers drive soaring power demand | Fort Worth Report](https://fortworthreport.org/2025/09/14/fort-worths-growth-data-centers-drive-soaring-power-demand/)
- [As Fort Worth prepares to hold ‘robust’ discussions on growing data centers, residents rally together | Fort Worth Report](https://fortworthreport.org/2026/05/18/public-concern-grows-as-fort-worth-explores-solutions-on-data-center-boom/) — Fort Worth Report · 2026-05-18
- [City Council to discuss future of data centers in Fort Worth as residents push back | Fort Worth Report](https://fortworthreport.org/2026/05/28/city-council-to-discuss-future-of-data-centers-in-fort-worth-as-residents-push-back/)
- [Here’s where Fort Worth’s data centers are — and where developers look to build others | Fort Worth Report](https://fortworthreport.org/2026/07/16/heres-where-fort-worths-data-centers-are-and-where-developers-look-to-build-others/)
- [Governor Abbott Breaks Ground On New Facebook Data Center | Office of the Texas Governor | Greg Abbott](https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor_abbott_breaks_ground_on_new_facebook_data_center) — Office of the Texas Governor · 2015-07-07
- [Fetched web page](https://sustainability.atmeta.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Meta_2025-Environmental-Data-Index.pdf)
- [Data Centers | AllianceTexas | Fort Worth, TX](https://www.alliancetexas.com/data-center)
- [Facebook files for $267 M building permit in Fort Worth ...](https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2017/05/02/facebook-files-for-267m-building-permit-in-fort.html)
- [Facebook planning to triple size of TX data center complex | Construction Dive](https://www.constructiondive.com/news/facebook-planning-to-triple-size-of-tx-data-center-complex/430422/) — Construction Dive · 2016-11-15
- [Facebook looking at North Fort Worth for huge data center](https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2015/05/22/facebook-looking-at-north-fort-worth-for-huge-data-center/)
- [Meta Data Center Facilities, Permits & Public Records | datacenter.fyi](https://www.datacenter.fyi/company/meta)
- [Meta - Fort Worth, TX | datacenter.fyi](https://www.datacenter.fyi/public-record/ab4cee68)
- [Facebook starts work on final phase of $1.5bn Fort Worth data center campus - DCD](https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/facebook-starts-work-final-phase-15bn-fort-worth-data-center-campus/)
- [Facebook to triple size of Fort Worth data center - DCD](https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/facebook-to-triple-size-of-fort-worth-data-center/)
- [Facebook Data Center in Fort Worth Texas](https://www.datacenters.com/facebook-fort-worth)
- [Meta Fort Worth Data Center | DPR Construction](https://www.dpr.com/projects/facebook-fort-worth-data-center)
- [Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT)](https://www.ercot.com/)
- [Data Centers – Welcome to the City of Fort Worth](https://www.fortworthtexas.gov/departments/city-manager/datacenters)
- [Fetched web page](https://www.fortworthtexas.gov/files/assets/public/v/2/internal-audit/documents/fy2019/2018-10-05-property-tax-abatement-winner-llc.pdf)
- [Facebook Breaks Ground on Massive Fort Worth Data Center – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth](https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/facebook-to-break-ground-on-fort-worth-data-center/2003144/)
- [ONCOR SERVICE AREA MAP](https://www.oncor.com/content/oncorwww/us/en/home/about-us/service-area-map.html)
- [Way: ‪Facebook Fort Worth Datacenter‬ (‪673145182‬) | OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/673145182)
- [Tarrant County Active Tax Abatements](https://www.tarrantcountytx.gov/content/dam/main/OpenBooks/transparencystarsfy23/TaxAbatment2023-06.23.htm)
- [Data Center Water Request – Tarrant Regional Water District](https://www.trwd.com/resource/data-center-water-request/)

## Data quality

- The mapped record identifies one Meta-operated building, while most project evidence concerns the broader multi-building, multi-phase Fort Worth campus.
- The retrieved sources identify Fort Worth, north Fort Worth, or the 170-acre campus, but do not provide the mapped building’s exact street address or parcel.
- The 2026 Fort Worth data-center opposition and regulatory debate primarily concerned proposed Edged, Black Mountain, and other projects, not the operating Meta site.
- Employment figures differ by source and project stage; they should not be combined into one definitive figure.
- No unsupported MW, water-use, PUE, WUE, tenant, equipment, or commercial-term claims are included.
- Power values retain their reported, requested, contracted, energized, gross-campus, or critical-IT basis.

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