July 5, 2026
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Self-Supply Is Now the Floor for Political Viability in Texas
The Environmental Integrity Project counted 36 of 74 planned behind-the-meter gas plants nationally serving Texas data centers, roughly half the country's total, anchored by Fermi America's 17 GW Project Matador outside Amarillo.
June 5, 2026
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Meitner Sets the Panhandle Playbook: Own the Generation, Fund the Watershed
Fermi America's Project Matador and Pacifico's GW Ranch still lack signed customers and visible construction.
April 30, 2026
Kiewit Books 5.4 GW for NRG as Gas Turbine Slots Vanish Through 2029Those who raise capital on promise, as Fermi America did with nearly $750 million and no anchor tenant locked, won't.
April 21, 2026
Fermi's Anchor Tenant Walked in December. Everything Else Followed.CEO Toby Neugebauer and CFO Miles Everson both exited within days, the stock has shed 69% since its October IPO, and satellite analysis from Cleanview shows no construction has begun on Project Matador near Amarillo.
April 20, 2026
Hyperscalers Stop Waiting on the Grid as ERCOT Stares at 218 GWRisk: developers who haven't reserved turbine or reactor slots by mid-2026 are bidding against a sold-out supply chain, and Fermi America's Amarillo stall, with CEO Toby Neugebauer out April 17 despite a February air permit, shows permits alone don't move dirt.
April 2, 2026
West Texas Becomes the AI Corridor While the Rest of America WaitsFermi America's Project Matador near Amarillo envisions an 11 GW private grid combining gas, nuclear, solar, and battery.
March 26, 2026
When Drones Target Power Lines, the Perimeter Is EverywhereGoogle and Fermi America are publicly clashing over how to power AI's next phase.
March 19, 2026
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
Texas Captures 30% of AI Power Demand Before the Rules Are WrittenFermi 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
Nine States Push Back as Hyperscalers Redraw America's Power MapTexas 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
Turbines Ease the Power Bottleneck. 91 Billion Gallons Say Water Is Next.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
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 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.
February 10, 2026
Behind the Fence: Texas Gigawatts Stack Up Faster Than Rules Can FollowFermi America just took delivery of its first Siemens Energy gas turbines for an eye-popping 11GW campus in Amarillo.