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 24 MW of reported power capacity and a 189,921 sq ft footprint at this site.
Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated Jun 18, 2026
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Travis, Texas
It's built. The levers now are permit renewals, noise/air complaints, and rate-case intervention.
Hearing timeline
- City Council
Thu, Aug 27, 2026 · 10:00 AM CDT
City Council: data-center item — Approve a resolution initiating amendments to City Code Title 25 (Land Development Code) and other provisions of City Code or regulations necessary to establish land uses, site development regulations, and development processes, for data center use in certain zoning
- City Council Work Session
Tue, Aug 25, 2026 · 9:00 AM CDT
City Council Work Session: Briefing on the current status of data center uses in the City and possible future amendments to the City Code or regulations. [Joi Harden, Acting Assistant Director - Austin Planning, Shay Roalson, Director - Austin Water, Stuart Reilly, General Manager - Austin Energy].
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Your action kit
Sourced arguments and ready-to-send letters — every figure links to a primary record. Edit to add your own story.
24 MW of new demand — roughly a city of 19,000 homes.
Large new loads can raise transmission and capacity costs that land on every ratepayer. Residential power in TX is 16.4¢/kWh, up 5.9% year-over-year. (MW→homes is a rough ~800/MW planning figure.)
SourceDemand a full, public review — not a rubber stamp.
Ask for an independent noise study, a water-and-power impact assessment, enforceable conditions (setbacks, hours, cooling type), and that the record stays open for written comment. Procedural shortcuts have voided approvals elsewhere.
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Overview
source: linkdata center
Operator chain
- Ultimate parentCyrusOne LLC
- Files asCyrusOne LLC
- This facilityCyrusOne Austin Data Center III
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: GDELT- CyrusOne pushes local hiring as it builds $500M data center near San Antonio - The Business JournalsThe Business Journals· Aug 3, 2026
- CyrusOne files to develop three buildings for $1.5bn data center campus in Fairfield, Texas - Data Center DynamicsData Center Dynamics· Jul 31, 2026
- CyrusOne announces sixth data center campus in San Antonio, Texas - Data Center DynamicsData Center Dynamics· Jul 20, 2026
- CyrusOne breaks ground on 380MW data center in Texas - Data Center DynamicsData Center Dynamics· Jun 8, 2026
In public meetings
Where this facility is discussed in the verbatim record of public government meetings. Captions are auto-generated and uncorrected.
- City Council Work SessionAug 25, 2026
“…tem that is also on the regular meeting agenda. 2. Pre-Selected Agenda Items 3. Briefings 4. [26-2407] Briefing on the current status of data center uses in the City and possible future amendments to the City Code or regulations. [Joi Harden, Acting Assistant Director - Austin Planning, Shay Roalson, Director - Aust…”
Read the transcript · 4 mentions
Tax breaks & subsidies
source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77These 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.
- Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project ExemptionTax break$0State of Texas · granted 2022 · term — yr · source
- Texas Qualifying Data Center ExemptionTax break$0State of Texas · granted 2017 · term — yr · source
- Texas Qualifying Data Center ExemptionTax break$0State of Texas · granted 2016 · 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 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 ECHONo reported violations as of last sync.
Air quality near this site
source: AirNowAir 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 2023Demographics 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 / NCESThe 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.