Reeves County Banks 6,000 Jobs as the Behind-the-Meter Model Scales

Behind-the-meter generation took Reeves County from a power-starved queue to 6,000 jobs and $10 billion, and the same model is now showing up at Google's Meitner campus and across a Texas market where ERCOT is fielding 445 GW of requests on an 85-GW system. The developers who lock self-supplied power and publish water data before testimony reaches Austin will write the rules everyone else builds under.