How much power does Meta Fort Worth use?

Meta Fort Worth has a reported power capacity of 700 MW.

Has Meta Fort Worth had environmental violations?

As of the latest EPA ECHO sync, no enforcement actions are on record for Meta Fort Worth.

Where is Meta Fort Worth located?

Meta Fort Worth is in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, TX.

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Meta Fort Worth

Q: Who owns Meta Fort Worth?

Meta Fort Worth is operated by Facebook USA, Inc. and ultimately owned by Meta Platforms, Inc..

Q: What do data center tax breaks cost in Texas?

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). That is a statewide program figure, not attributable to one site.

Fort Worth, Tarrant County, TX

Meta Fort Worth is an operating data center in Tarrant County, TX, operated by Facebook USA, Inc. and ultimately owned by Meta Platforms, Inc.. DataCentersExposed has documented 700 MW of reported power capacity at this site.

Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated Jun 14, 2026

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Power

700 MW

Utility

Denton County Elec Coop, INC

Grid

ERCOT

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Overview

Meta Fort Worth is an operating hyperscale data center in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, run by Facebook USA, Inc., a subsidiary ultimately owned by Meta Platforms, Inc. Operational since 2017, the site reports a power capacity of 700 MW, drawing electricity from Denton County Elec Coop, INC within the ERCOT grid.

Operator chain

Ultimate parent
Meta Platforms, Inc.
Files as
Facebook USA, Inc.
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Meta Fort Worth

In the news

source: Google News

Tax breaks & subsidies

source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77

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

Dollar value not disclosed for this record.

Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
State of Texas · granted 2022 · 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.

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Water use

Modeled estimate~12.5M gpd

Direct (onsite cooling)

~7.1M gpd

Indirect (its electricity)

~5.4M gpd

No measured record exists, so this is a low-confidence model from 700 MW (disclosed IT power): 2 L/kWh cooling (hot climate) + 0.4 gal/kWh embedded in ERCOT grid mix. 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

PM2.5

Good

PM10

Good

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

Who lives nearby

source: Census ACS 2023

Median household income

$88.3K

People of color

48%

Below poverty

10%

Tract population

5,924

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, Young Women's Leadership Academy in Fort Worth, is 0.3 mi from this site (455 students). 7 public schools sit within a mile of the site.

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.