Fort Bliss Becomes the Borderland's Third Gigawatt Build in 18 Months

Fort Bliss joins a borderland buildout where developers are buying generation, land, and fuel in single transactions because the queue is no longer a viable path. MARA's $1.5B Long Ridge acquisition and Oracle's 2.45 GW Bloom fuel cell pivot tell you what 432 GW of ERCOT backlog actually costs the operators still sequencing power after the fact.