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Compass Datacenters Red Oak Campus (DFW III)

Compass Datacenters Red Oak Campus is an AI data center campus developed by Compass Datacenters in Texas, Red Oak. 0.36 GW of capacity has been announced; 0.36 GW is energized. The gap is what this page tracks: what is claimed versus what is actually built, each figure dated and sourced.

Partially energized · Compass Datacenters · Private land · ERCOT · Red Oak, Texas, United States

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Capacity: announced vs energized

Contracted
not recorded
Under construction
not recorded

Announced-to-energized gap: 0 GW. Every figure below is a single dated, sourced claim. Current best per series resolves by evidence tier, then date. See the methodology.

66th-largest announced of 97 tracked campuses5th by energized capacity≈ 292,000 homes of power at full announced capacity (basis)
Compass Datacenters Red Oak Campus (DFW III) capacity claims
Source
Announced0.36 GW2025-06-01claimedtracker
Energized0.36 GW2026-01-01reportedpermit
Energized0.18 GW2025-06-01claimedtracker

Construction evidence

Dated satellite imagery of the site itself, oldest to newest, with the campus milestones that landed in each window. This is what the site looked like from orbit while announcements, permits, and energizations were dated into our ledger, so bare land, grading, and building mass tell their own story alongside the paper trail. Sentinel-2 true color, 10 m resolution, cloud-free scenes; click any frame to expand it.

Delivery paceAnnounced Q2 2025 · live Q1 2026 · 7 mo build

2018-08-25Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2018
2020-08-19Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2020
2022-06-20Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2022
2024-09-10Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024
2025-09-10Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2025

Dated Sentinel-2 imagery, gated to hand-verified site coordinates. Milestones synthesized from the campus's own capacity ledger, financial claims, and lifecycle events; each chip links to its source. How we source and verify it: satellite construction evidence.

Per-building manifest tied to the site polygons and imagery. When we know a building's outline we render it; when we know only its year and capacity we still surface those as first-class rows so the campus total is auditable, not a headline claim. Sorted largest-first; top 6 shown by default of 14.

Building 81
Building sqft: 735,316
polygon on record (25 vertices)
Building 82
Building sqft: 264,733
polygon on record (9 vertices)
Compass Data Center
Building sqft: 252,658
polygon on record (9 vertices)
Compass Data Center
Building sqft: 252,656
polygon on record (9 vertices)
Compass Data Center
Building sqft: 252,640
polygon on record (9 vertices)
Compass Data Center
Building sqft: 252,629
polygon on record (9 vertices)

Manifest totals: 3,672,488 sqft. Rolled from the per-building rows above.

Key facts

partially energized

Lifecycle

0.36 GW

Announced

0.36 GW

Energized

Compass Datacenters

Developer

United States

Location

ERCOT

Grid

private land

Land

4

Facilities tracked

On the data center map

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The story of Compass Datacenters Red Oak Campus (DFW III)
Announced capex
$300M
Cooling
Air-cooled, N+1 redundancy
Derived
Cost per MW
$833K/MW

Every figure is one row in the ledger below with its source. Derived rows are pure arithmetic on the rows above (not new claims). Absent lines mean the fact isn't on record yet.

In clusterTexas(607)

The deal

developer
Compass Datacenters · Entity Compass Datacenters DFW III, LLC
utility
Hilco Electric Cooperative · Grid power provider to the Red Oak (DFW III) campus at 300 Houston School Road; TCEQ Federal Operating Permit O4679

Power

Power source
grid
Grid operator
ERCOT
Interconnection
Water
Closed-loop water-cooling system that is not connected to the city utility line and, per city staff, uses less water annually than a Walmart Supercenter.

The Texas (ERCOT) grid demand right now: 62.3 GW (EIA-930, 2026-09-27 16:00). Compass Datacenters Red Oak Campus's announced 0.36 GW would be 0.6% of the grid's current load.

County water status: Extreme drought (D3) in Ellis County, week of 2026-09-22 (US Drought Monitor). Data centers are large water users for cooling; this is the neutral local water picture.

Silicon on site

Every AI chip publicly attributed to Compass Datacenters Red Oak Campus (DFW III) on the DEPLOY registry. Quantity hints are unstructured because underlying disclosures vary by an order of magnitude. Source links per row.

  1. as of 2025-01-01

    H100/H200-generation hyperscaler capacity at the Red Oak DFW III campus

    inferredCompass DFW III hosts multiple hyperscalers with H100/H200 fleets; per-tenant chip counts not published.

    Compass Datacenters

Why here

Compass Datacenters Red Oak Campus sits on private land in Texas, Red Oak. It connects to the ERCOT grid, draws on grid power. This siting summary is composed from the record's held fields, not speculation; see methodology.

Financial structure

DFW III expansion (up to 3 additional buildings)
$300M. Combined construction cost of up to three more facilities announced Sept 2024 journalist report

Regulatory paper trail

The filings and rules on record for this site and its jurisdiction, most recent first. Each is a sourced, dated artifact you can follow to the primary document.

NHTSA Recall: Zoox Robotaxi Software Update for Heavy Smoke Visibility (26E044)operational restriction · 2026-07-15 · United States

Investment, workforce and specs

Cooling
Air-cooled, N+1 redundancy source

Facilities at this campus

Timeline

  2. Aug 2026
    party added
    utility: Hilco Electric Cooperative
  3. Sep 2026
    Current: Partially energized

Sources

43a07716-a21a-44dc-96de-1421aa5d186b · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Every term is defined in the glossary. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.

Head-to-head

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Common questions

What is Compass Datacenters Red Oak Campus (DFW III)?
Compass Datacenters Red Oak Campus (DFW III) is an AI data center campus tracked on the DEPLOY registry, located in Red Oak. DEPLOY records its capacity as a dated, sourced ledger: announced gigawatts versus actually energized gigawatts, never a press-release total.
How much power will Compass Datacenters Red Oak Campus (DFW III) use?
Compass Datacenters Red Oak Campus (DFW III) has 0.36 GW of announced capacity on the DEPLOY registry, of which 0.36 GW is recorded as energized. Each figure is individually dated and sourced.
Who is building Compass Datacenters Red Oak Campus (DFW III)?
Compass Datacenters is recorded as a party to Compass Datacenters Red Oak Campus (DFW III) on the DEPLOY registry. The full party list, with each role, is on the record.
Is Compass Datacenters Red Oak Campus (DFW III) operating yet?
As of the most recent verification on the DEPLOY registry, Compass Datacenters Red Oak Campus (DFW III) is partially energized. DEPLOY tracks the lifecycle from announced through energized, so the current state reflects sourced evidence, not the original announcement.
How verified is the data on Compass Datacenters Red Oak Campus (DFW III)?
A human editor has reviewed this record for the indexed registry. Every capacity figure is an append-only, dated claim resolved to the highest-evidence tier; superseded claims are kept but excluded from the current view.

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DEPLOY. (2026). Compass Datacenters Red Oak Campus (DFW III): AI data center campus record. Retrieved September 27, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/compass-red-oak-dfw3-ellis-texas

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