Rowan Project Pirate Data Center Campus (CR 683, Lytle, Medina County)

Name: Rowan Project Pirate Data Center Campus (CR 683, Lytle, Medina County)
Address: US

Announced

United States · 1 project · Last reported 2026-10-26

Summary

Rowan Digital Infrastructure's Project Pirate factsheet of 26 October 2026 describes Project Pirate as a low-impact data center campus 'proposed on about 280 acres of industrial land in Medina County', with a minimum private investment of $900 million, at least 500 construction jobs and more than 40 permanent roles, and gives the timeline 'Sept. 2026: Project announced', 'Oct. 2026: Public hearings' and '2027-28: Construction'. Rowan's Medina County site places it north of I-35 and west of the Coal Mine neighborhood near Lytle. This records the named project as announced on the factsheet's date. The hearings are a schedule and construction in 2027-28 a forecast; no approval, permit, site work, construction, capacity, operator or customer is established. evidence

Rowan Digital Infrastructure LLC (Rowan in Medina County project site) · published 2026-10-26

Location

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Campus reference; individual project footprints are not mapped.

Projects (1)

Project Pirate — proposed data center campus on about 280 acres (announced September 2026)

Announced last observed as of 2026-10-26 · Project announcement

The live FAQ says 'Project Pirate is on about 280 acres of industrial-designated land north of I-35 and west of the Coal Mine neighborhood', that Project Pirate 'was announced in September 2026 and will move through public hearings in October' and that, if approved, it could begin construction shortly after; that Project Cinco is being built on about 440 acres between Lytle and Natalia just north of Interstate 35; and that both Medina County projects together represent a minimum $1.8 billion private investment. evidence

Rowan Digital Infrastructure LLC (Rowan in Medina County project site) · publication date not stated

The live page repeats that Project Cinco, about 440 acres between Lytle and Natalia, 'has been under construction since 2025', and describes Project Pirate, 'announced in September 2026', as a proposed data center 'located on about 280 acres of land northwest of I-35 and west of the Coal Mine neighborhood' on industrial-designated land, with more than $900 million in private investment, 500+ construction jobs and 40+ full-time direct jobs once operational, and links the Project Pirate factsheet. evidence

Rowan Digital Infrastructure LLC (Rowan in Medina County project site) · publication date not stated

The FAQ says that 'Project Cinco is being built on about 440 acres of land in unincorporated Medina County between Lytle and Natalia, just north of Interstate 35', that 'More than 500 construction jobs are already here, due to Project Cinco', and that Rowan submitted its site plan application to Medina County, which was approved through the county's public hearing process in summer 2025, held a groundbreaking ceremony in September 2025, 'and development on the site is now underway.' It says Rowan 'is not a data center operator' and works with an end user, typically identified closer to completion; that Rowan funded and built a new access road for the Coal Mine neighborhood at the request of Medina County and the City of Lytle; and that a temporary natural-gas power solution is planned for a portion of the campus. It says Project Pirate 'was announced in September 2026 and will move through public hearings in October' and could begin construction shortly after approval. evidence

Rowan Digital Infrastructure LLC (Internet Archive copy) · publication date not stated

The agenda for the City Council's regular meeting of 26 October 2026 lists item 5c, Resolution 26-47, approving 'the Terms and Conditions of an Agreement By and Between the City of Lytle, Texas and Rowan Cinco LLC for Sanitary Sewer Service Related to Project Cinco', and an executive session under Texas Government Code sections 551.071 and 551.087 (economic development negotiations) for 'Discussion Concerning Project Pirate'. evidence

City of Lytle, Texas · published 2026-10-20

Companies

Owner: Rowan Lytle LLC (current) evidence

Source and location review

Status source

Rowan: Project Pirate factsheet (PDF, 26 October 2026) evidence row
Rowan Digital Infrastructure LLC (Rowan in Medina County project site) · published 2026-10-26 · Company disclosure

Locator

Campus locator · Official source · official_tax_parcel_union_centroid evidence

Source checks

Not reviewed against imagery not_reviewed
No imagery review is recorded for this project. Its status rests only on the dated authoritative source. · no independent imagery verification

Status age at review: 1 days before the data update on 2026-10-27

Location details

Coordinates: 29.22722, -98.82116
Geometry licence: public-use-as-is
Use scope: Campus locator
Scope class: official_tax_parcel_union_centroid
Authority: Official source
Source entity: Campus
Method: official_statewide_parcel_service_parcel_union_centroid
Derivation: direct_geometry
Precision scope: Centroid of the union of the five Medina Appraisal District parcels owned by Rowan Lytle LLC on County Road 683, Lytle (7809, 83866, 7868, 7865 and 516178; 288.671 geodesic acres in one contiguous tract, about 1,216 by 1,406 m) from the TxGIO parcel service. The Medina County 911 address point for 715 CR 683 lies inside the tract. It locates Rowan's landholding for the proposed campus, not a building or an approved site plan.
Horizontal uncertainty: Not reported
Appraisal-district parcels carry no published positional accuracy; the centroid represents a 289-acre tract whose vertices lie up to 894 m away, and no site plan or building position for Project Pirate has been published.
Geometry evidence: 56e20ed7

A locator places the site on the map. It is not a building footprint, a construction extent or a surveyed boundary unless the use scope is an official boundary, and even then it is a parcel or permit boundary.

Evidence

Sources are linked, not redistributed; each keeps its own terms. An archived copy is a lookup for the Wayback Machine capture nearest the retrieval date and may be unavailable or differ from what was reviewed. Each hash states what it covers; imported factual records are not publisher-page captures.

Evidence for Rowan Project Pirate Data Center Campus (CR 683, Lytle, Medina County)
Title	Publisher	Roles	Published	Retrieved	Licence	Attribution	Content hash (SHA-256)
City of Lytle: Regular City Council Meeting agenda, 26 October 2026 Archived copy	City of Lytle, Texas Government record	Site and project identity	2026-10-20	2026-10-27	public-record-source-terms	City of Lytle, Texas, Agenda Center	`a0f34c6d9ca04e34599dfa0162352a4db93141517f1bf58581ccd13c3250c4e7` Retained source material; see source provenance
Internet Archive copy (7 October 2026) of Rowan in Medina County: FAQs Archived copy	Rowan Digital Infrastructure LLC (Internet Archive copy) Company disclosure	Site and project identity	not stated	2026-10-27	all-rights-reserved	Rowan Digital Infrastructure, rowanmedina.com; copy held by the Internet Archive	`9f1b42feb25c0949876f20b1b854d0593cd53368b7758e2c6a915f165effcaf1` Retained source material; see source provenance
Internet Archive copy (7 October 2026) of Rowan in Medina County: Projects Archived copy	Rowan Digital Infrastructure LLC (Internet Archive copy) Company disclosure	Site and project identity, Physical status	not stated	2026-10-27	all-rights-reserved	Rowan Digital Infrastructure, rowanmedina.com; copy held by the Internet Archive	`c4d007d72385d0eb934ce7470dd50f94333d9e223e21a978532a2f2dcda0db0e` Retained source material; see source provenance
Rowan in Medina County: FAQs (live page captured 27 October 2026) Archived copy	Rowan Digital Infrastructure LLC (Rowan in Medina County project site) Company disclosure	Site and project identity	not stated	2026-10-27	all-rights-reserved	Rowan Digital Infrastructure, rowanmedina.com	`0a9de9edd4302ba35ab9b2142660940b70a00dae88093f012010efd583405c6f` Retained source material; see source provenance
Rowan in Medina County: Projects (live page captured 27 October 2026) Archived copy	Rowan Digital Infrastructure LLC (Rowan in Medina County project site) Company disclosure	Site and project identity	not stated	2026-10-27	all-rights-reserved	Rowan Digital Infrastructure, rowanmedina.com	`f7fc37f35972e285f1c0ecf3af4eb367ce3ffdc89ad2a92ee4d2696447acb2c5` Retained source material; see source provenance
Rowan: Project Pirate factsheet (PDF, 26 October 2026) Archived copy	Rowan Digital Infrastructure LLC (Rowan in Medina County project site) Company disclosure	Project announcement, Site and project identity	2026-10-26	2026-10-27	all-rights-reserved	Rowan Digital Infrastructure, rowanmedina.com	`5dbb5f9b5aeef157f0cb08382a4a0e0b52e02c8f91b161594c2aa9693e069702` Retained source material; see source provenance
TxGIO StratMap Land Parcels: Rowan Lytle LLC parcels, CR 683, Lytle, Medina County Archived copy	Texas Geographic Information Office (TxGIO) Government record	Geometry, Owner claim	not stated	2026-10-27	public-use-as-is	Texas Geographic Information Office, StratMap Land Parcels (Medina Appraisal District data)	`bb23932b65413a72f8d765675a5ede930ae3dbfa3f2223e9114dd0840b91f140` Retained source material; see source provenance

Cite this site

Kyars, K. (2026). Rowan Project Pirate Data Center Campus (CR 683, Lytle, Medina County) [site vcc-site-4066c8eef2c3b8f310b2]. In Data Center Atlas (2026-10-27) [Data set]. https://kiankyars.github.io/datacenter-atlas/sites/vcc-site-4066c8eef2c3b8f310b2/

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