Compass Data Center
300 Houston School Road · Red Oak, Ellis County, TX
Source: OpenStreetMap
Compass Data Center is a mapped data center in Ellis County, TX, operated by Compass Datacenters, LLC. DataCentersExposed has documented a 41,692 sq ft footprint at this site.
Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated Aug 19, 2026
Overview
source: linkdata center
Operator chain
- Ultimate parentCompass Datacenters, LLC
- Files asCompass Datacenters, LLC
- This facilityCompass Data Center
The grid behind this site, right now
source: ERCOT · gridstatus- Natural Gas43.2%
- Solar37.3%
- Coal9.7%
- Nuclear5.6%
- Wind4.1%
Real-time generation mix for the ERCOT grid this site draws from, as of Aug 17, 2026, 8:04 PM. ISO-wide, not this facility's own metering. Source: gridstatus.
Grid & water — why here
source: HIFLD · EPAThe closest existing grid infrastructure and the municipal water system this location sits in — the same constraints the buildout model screens on (it won't site a campus more than ~2 km from a substation or ~5 km from municipal water). Distances are straight-line to public HIFLD/EPA features, not a metered connection.
In the news
source: Google News- Free Data Center Training & Scholarships at Meridian Community CollegeTUN - The University Network· Aug 4, 2026
- Compass Datacenters and Meridian Community College Launch Mississippi's First Data Center Workforce Training ProgramPR Newswire· Jul 31, 2026
- Red Oak Faces Data Center Boom Amid Resident BacklashYahoo Finance· Jul 26, 2026
- Red Oak embraced data centers. Now neighbors are pushing backDallas News· Jul 22, 2026
- Data center developer donates millions for Ellis County animal shelter, college as pushback growsKERA News· Jul 6, 2026
- Veterans' Secret Pathway to Lucrative Data Center Jobs ExposedMilitary.com· Jul 6, 2026
Tax breaks & subsidies
source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77These tax breaks are recorded to Compass Datacenters, LLC (the operator/parent) and may cover this or other sites — no state names the recipient at the facility level.
- Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project ExemptionTax break$0State of Texas · granted 2024 · term — yr · source
- Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project ExemptionTax break$0State of Texas · granted 2022 · term — yr · source
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.
Water use
No public record of this facility's water use. We check state withdrawal reporting for self-supplied sites; municipally supplied sites only become visible through a public-records request to the local water utility — a per-facility request tool is coming. If you have a utility document for this site, send it to us.
EPA permits & violations
source: EPA ECHONo reported violations as of last sync.
Nearest school
source: HIFLD / NCESThe nearest public school, Red Oak El in Red Oak, is 1.5 mi from this site (528 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.