Fermi America

April 2, 2026

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West Texas Becomes the AI Corridor While the Rest of America Waits

Fermi America's Project Matador near Amarillo envisions an 11 GW private grid combining gas, nuclear, solar, and battery.

March 26, 2026

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When Drones Target Power Lines, the Perimeter Is Everywhere

Google and Fermi America are publicly clashing over how to power AI's next phase.

March 19, 2026

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Communities Aren't Anti-Datacenter. They're Anti-Surprise.

Fermi America plans to file a second 5 GW clean air permit with TCEQ for Project Matador near Amarillo, scaling the campus to roughly 17 GW total: 11 GW natural gas, 4.4 GW nuclear, plus solar and battery.

March 14, 2026

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Texas Captures 30% of AI Power Demand Before the Rules Are Written

Fermi America's plans (backed by former Energy Secretary Rick Perry) for the country's largest combined-cycle gas projects at a Texas AI datacenter campus.

March 1, 2026

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller launched a formal investigation into Fermi America's Project Matador, an 18 million square foot, 11 GW campus north of Amarillo, after cotton farmers flagged Ogallala Aquifer depletion risks.

February 26, 2026

TCEQ approved air quality permits for Fermi America's proposed datacenter power plant in Amarillo, denying contested case hearing requests from the Panhandle First Coalition on procedural standing grounds.

February 23, 2026

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 14, 2026

GW 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.

February 10, 2026

Fermi America just took delivery of its first Siemens Energy gas turbines for an eye-popping 11GW campus in Amarillo.