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CyrusOne Austin Data Center III

7100 Metropolis Drive · Travis County, TX

Source: OpenStreetMap

CyrusOne Austin Data Center III is an operating data center in Travis County, TX, operated by CyrusOne LLC. DataCentersExposed has documented a 189,921 sq ft footprint at this site.

Reporting by · Updated Jun 14, 2026

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Real parent
CyrusOne LLC
Operator
CyrusOne LLC
Est. capacity
~35-80 MW
Footprint
189,921 sq ft
Interconnection
~17 MW
Utility
Austin Energy
Grid
ERCO
Attribution & capacity confidence:mediumprimary source
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Most sites are mapped — located but awaiting a second source. How we verify

Dot size = disclosed capacity (MW). Smallest = undisclosed, not small.

Overview

source: link

data center

Operator chain

The grid behind this site, right now

source: ERCOT · gridstatus
Clean right now
41%
Fossil right now
59%
Grid operator
ERCOT
  • Natural Gas45.3%
  • Solar29.0%
  • Coal13.7%
  • Nuclear7.9%
  • Wind4.0%

Real-time generation mix for the ERCOT grid this site draws from, as of Jun 16, 2026, 2:44 PM. ISO-wide, not this facility's own metering. Source: gridstatus.

In the news

source: GDELT

Tax breaks & subsidies

source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77

These tax breaks are recorded to CyrusOne LLC (the operator/parent) and may cover this or other sites — no state names the recipient at the facility level.

Dollar value not disclosed for these records.
  • Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2022 · term — yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2017 · term — yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2016 · term — yr · source
Statewide cost of this incentive

Texas reported $16.1M in Property used in certain large data center projects; temporary exemption (Texas Tax Code § 151.3595) for FY2025 (Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts). Program-wide, not attributable to this site.

source · All Texas subsidies →

Water use

Modeled estimate~319.3K gpd
Direct (onsite cooling)
~172.5K gpd
Indirect (its electricity)
~146.9K gpd

No measured record exists, so this is a low-confidence model from 17 MW (interconnection capacity): 2 L/kWh cooling (hot climate) + 0.45 gal/kWh embedded in US grid average. How we estimate. Have a utility document? Send it and we'll replace this with the real figure.

EPA permits & violations

source: EPA ECHO

No reported violations as of last sync.

Air quality near this site

source: AirNow
54
PM2.5
Moderate
24
O3
Good
21
PM10
Good

Air Quality Index from the nearest AirNow reporting area (Austin), as of 2026-06-10. Regional context — not this facility's own emissions.

Who lives nearby

source: Census ACS 2023
Median household income
$111.5K
People of color
81%
Below poverty
5%
Tract population
8,769

Demographics of the census tract this facility sits in (American Community Survey 5-year estimates). Environmental-justice context for who bears the local impacts.

Nearest school

source: HIFLD / NCES

The nearest public school, The Excel Center For Adults - South Austin in Austin, is 0.8 mi from this site (96 students).

Schools are sensitive receptors for the noise, backup-generator exhaust, and traffic a large data center brings. Straight-line distance to the nearest public school (HIFLD/NCES, US public schools only).

Hearings timeline

No public-hearing records linked to this site yet. We surface planning-commission and board-of-supervisors dates when a record names a facility. If you know of a hearing on this site, tell us.