August 10, 2026
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Trump Split With Gov. Abbott Just Compressed Every Operator's Audit Timeline
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Chevron operates crude oil and natural gas production facilities in Texas that supply energy resources used to power the state's datacenters and industrial infrastructure.
August 10, 2026
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Trump Split With Gov. Abbott Just Compressed Every Operator's Audit Timeline
August 6, 2026
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Self-Supplied Sites Move Ahead While Grid Projects Wait
August 1, 2026
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The Same $50K Fee That Screens Datacenters Now Applies to Chevron and Samsung
July 24, 2026
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At 500 MW, the Campus Becomes the Grid Plan. Texas Wired $33B In.
July 12, 2026
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North Carolina Repeals Its Power Tax Break. Texas Never Had One to Lose.
July 7, 2026
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The Permian Gets Texas's First 765 kV Backbone, and CREZ Wrote the Playbook
July 6, 2026
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The April Deadline Beats the Rulebook by Three Years
July 4, 2026
Abbott Hardens His Terms. The 2027 Legislature Holds the Pen.Microsoft's 2 GW Pecos campus launches on dedicated onsite natural gas under a 20-year PPA with Energy Forge One, a Chevron subsidiary, and can serve customers without an ERCOT interconnection on day one.
July 2, 2026
FERC Orders Six Grid Operators to Defend the Rules or Rewrite ThemJoulent's flagship Project Kilby, a 2.67 GW natural gas campus in Reeves County, will supply a Microsoft-operated campus under a 20-year PPA, with Chevron subsidiary Energy Forge and GE Vernova as partners.
June 30, 2026
Home-Rule Authority Faces Its First Real Test in San MarcosMicrosoft secured Chevron gas for a 2.67 GW West Texas site without touching ERCOT's queue; Google signed a 1 GW TotalEnergies solar PPA for Texas.
June 28, 2026
Chevron Bets $7B That Off-Grid Gas Is the Faster Path to MarketMicrosoft gets 99.999% baseload uptime; Chevron turns stranded Permian gas, the kind that trades negative at the Waha Hub, into two decades of fixed revenue from a creditworthy counterparty.
June 27, 2026
Anchors Are Building Their Own Power to Skip the Texas QueueChevron's Energy Forge One locked Microsoft into a 20-year PPA for Project Kilby, a 2.67 GW co-located gas-plus-compute facility in West Texas, targeting Final Investment Decision by end-2026 and first power in 2028.
June 26, 2026
Five Tests Now Separate Real Load From Speculation in TexasChevron and Microsoft signed a 20-year PPA for Project Kilby, a 2.67 GW co-located facility in West Texas running primarily on GE Vernova turbines, with FID targeted by end of 2026 and first power in 2028.
June 25, 2026
The PUC Just Made Your Interconnection Agreement the Only Thing That MattersA 20-year, 2.67 GW power purchase agreement with Chevron will build a dedicated gas plant for a 2GW Pecos campus, running behind the meter and bypassing ERCOT's interconnection queue, which sits past 300 GW of pending applications.
June 24, 2026
Reeves County Banks 6,000 Jobs as the Behind-the-Meter Model ScalesChevron and Microsoft signed a 20-year power purchase agreement for Project Kilby, a 2.67 GW natural gas and solar facility in Reeves County near Pecos, paired directly with a Microsoft data center campus.
June 23, 2026
The Deliverable Megawatt Wins: Microsoft Locks 20 Years of Pecos GasMicrosoft and Chevron turned a four-month exclusive negotiation into a binding 20-year power agreement for Project Kilby, a 2 GW AI campus paired with dedicated gas generation near Pecos.
May 18, 2026
Opposition Hits 70%. The Siting Playbook Just Got Three Items Longer.Chevron's Energy Forge One subsidiary is seeking $227 million in JETA tax savings over ten years for a West Texas gas plant tied to a Microsoft exclusivity deal, part of roughly 100 GW of gas capacity nationally under development for datacenter-only service per Global Energy Monitor.
May 15, 2026
Behind-the-Meter Gas Is the New Default. Chevron Just Set the Texas Template.Chevron's Energy Forge One subsidiary applied for a $227 million JETI tax break on a 2,500 MW gas plant near Pecos to serve a proposed Microsoft AI campus, bypassing ERCOT's 300+ GW interconnection queue entirely.
May 12, 2026
Three Deals, One Thesis: The Capital Stack Is Buying Electrons NowChevron and Engine No. 1 brought Microsoft into their gas partnership for a West Texas campus; Google's working with Crusoe on gas at the Goodnight campus in the Panhandle.
April 23, 2026
Capital Front-Runs the Forecast: $2B Lands Before ERCOT Hits 367 GWA potential Microsoft-Chevron project in West Texas carries an 11.5 million-ton permit by itself.
April 12, 2026
400 Projects, Two Unanswered Questions, One Legislative ClockMeanwhile, Chevron plans a 2.5 GW (expandable to 5 GW) behind-the-meter gas power complex in the Permian for a single hyperscale customer, targeting commercial operation in 2027.
April 9, 2026
Nine Months to Shape the Rules Texas Is About to WriteMicrosoft, Chevron, and Engine No. 1 are in exclusive talks over a $7 billion, 2,500 MW gas plant in West Texas.
April 5, 2026
West Texas Is Open for Business. Austin Is About to Set the Terms.Chevron and Microsoft signed an exclusivity agreement to negotiate a 2.5-to-5 GW colocated gas-and-compute campus in the Permian Basin.
March 25, 2026
Grimes County Has No Land-Use Plan. That's Every Developer's Problem Now.Pacifico Energy, Chevron, ExxonMobil, and Diamondback Energy are constructing private gas-fired power plants in West Texas to feed data centers directly, sidestepping ERCOT's interconnection queue.
March 24, 2026
Texas Invited the AI Boom. The $14B Transmission Bill Is the Invoice.Chevron, Exxon Mobil, and Diamondback Energy are entering commercial electricity generation for the first time.
February 26, 2026
Turbines Ease the Power Bottleneck. 91 Billion Gallons Say Water Is Next.ExxonMobil partnered with NextEra on a 1.2 GW gas plant dedicated to datacenter supply; Chevron teamed with GE Vernova on similar projects.
February 23, 2026
Texas Adds 58 GW of Gas in One Year. The Grid May Be the Last to Know.Fermi America's Project Matador near Amarillo is permitted for 6 GW; Chevron announced its first-ever power plant at up to 5 GW for AI workloads in West Texas.
February 21, 2026
6.5 GW Building, No Water Plan, No Local ConsentMeta, OpenAI, Oracle, Chevron, and xAI are all pursuing variants of this model in at least nine states.
February 19, 2026
Water, Not Power, Will Decide Who Wins the Texas Data Center RaceExxonMobil and NextEra are building a 1.2 GW dedicated gas plant; Chevron partnered with GE Vernova on gas-fired datacenter supply.
February 14, 2026
Texas Becomes the World's Gas-to-AI Factory FloorGW Ranch joins Fermi America's 6 GW Project Matador near Amarillo and Chevron's planned 5 GW facility in West Texas in a concentration of behind-the-meter gas generation that has no parallel outside China.
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