Rowan Digital Infrastructure, a Colorado-based hyperscale developer, is seeking city approval for the Lasso building, the sixth and final data center in its planned campus in Temple, Texas. The project was first reported by KWTX and covered by the Houston Chronicle and the Temple Daily Telegram. At full buildout, the campus represents roughly $4.2 billion in capital investment across six buildings on more than 700 acres along Bob White Road in south and east Temple.

As of early September 2026, the Lasso phase has cleared first readings before the Temple City Council for voluntary annexation and Planned Development-Light Industrial zoning over roughly 316 acres. Related Unified Development Code and data center ordinance changes were adopted on first reading, with final ordinance readings scheduled for mid-September 2026. Planning and Zoning consideration remains pending.

Rowan Digital Infrastructure is a Colorado-based hyperscale data center developer focused on large-scale campuses in markets with favorable land, power, and infrastructure conditions. Temple is its flagship campus project and, based on public disclosures, its most significant announced development to date.

The Rowan campus uses closed-loop cooling, which changes the water story meaningfully. Each building requires a one-time fill of about 1.5 million gallons. After that, daily consumption is projected at roughly 32,000 gallons, with a campus-wide peak of 78,000 gallons per day. City documents note that this peak figure represents less than 1% of Temple's total daily water use. For Project Temple specifically, domestic water demand is contractually capped at 4,000 gallons per day. For communities and site selectors accustomed to water-intensive evaporative cooling at this scale, those numbers are worth holding onto.

A six-building, $4.2 billion campus delivering more than 2,000 construction jobs and 120-plus permanent positions is a multi-year labor event for Bell County and the broader Killeen-Temple market. The construction wave will compete directly with other large projects along the I-35 corridor in Austin and Waco for high-voltage electricians, structural steel workers, and advanced mechanical installers. Those trades are already stretched regionally, and experienced commissioning professionals tend to follow Austin's hyperscale cluster rather than diffuse northward on their own.

The less obvious opportunity here is what Temple's specific labor geography actually offers. Fort Cavazos in nearby Killeen produces a steady pipeline of technically trained veterans with backgrounds in electrical systems, HVAC, and IT infrastructure. Temple's hospital and manufacturing base adds another layer of facilities and systems talent. Together, they give Rowan an unusually strong foundation for both construction-phase hiring and long-term operations staffing, without depending on the union hall structures that anchor similar pipelines in older industrial metros. Structured apprenticeship and military-transition programs are likely to yield more here than they would in a market where those workers have already been absorbed by incumbent trades.

For a full breakdown of roles, pay bands, and where the regional talent sits, see our guide to hiring data center talent in Bell County, Texas. Sources: KWTX, which first reported the Lasso filing, and the Houston Chronicle, Temple Daily Telegram, City of Temple meeting and tax abatement notices, and Texas planning docket summary.