Real estate firm Oppidan is planning to develop a data center in Temple, Texas.

As reported by the San Antonio Express-News and BizJournal, Oppidan recently filed plans for a data center project with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.

According to the filing, Oppidan plans to develop a 5MW, 61,500 sq ft (5,715 sqm) facility at 2325 Eberhardt Road in Temple, Bell County.

The $31 million project is set to run from July 2025 to October 2026.

Salas O'Brien is the listed design firm on the project. Oppidan didn’t provide comment to BizJournal when asked about the development.

According to county property records, Oppidan bought 10 acres along Eberhardt Road from the Temple Economic Development Corp. in March. The site is located close to Meta’s planned Temple campus.

Minnesota-based Oppidan is a property development firm. Its data center clients in the past have reportedly included Oracle, several unnamed telcos, Bell Canada brand Bell Alliant, and Sabey Corp.

It has been involved with projects in Memphis, Tennessee; an AWS project in California; and in 2022 acquired four plots in Santa Clara alongside Harrison Street set to be developed into a 50MW data center.

Oppidan recently filed to build a 5MW facility in El Paso, Texas, and broke ground on a 90,000 sq ft (8,360 sqm) data center in Chicago, Illinois. It also has projects in Eagan and Apple Valley, Minnesota, and Reno, Nevada.

On its website, Oppidan lists a subsidiary known as Connect Data Centers. The recently formed unit says it has delivered data centers totaling 650MW and 2.28 million sq ft (211,819 sqm) across California, Virginia, Maryland, Tennessee, Ohio, Iowa, and Kansas since 2016. It says it has a further 720MW and 2.96 million sq ft (274,993 sqm) worth of projects in development across the US.

Meta and Rowan are also developing data centers in Temple, a city located south of Waco between Austin and Dallas.