September 17, 2026
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Documentary Survival Now Prices 266 GW Energization to Dec. 10
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Oncor Electric Delivery is the primary regulated electric utility transmission and distribution company serving North Central Texas, including the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and operates critical infrastructure that supports the state's data center industry.
September 17, 2026
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Documentary Survival Now Prices 266 GW Energization to Dec. 10
August 11, 2026
Gov. Abbott's Audit Leaves Batch Zero With No Restart DateSkybox's PowerCampus Austin in Hutto, a 600 MW, 4-million-square-foot campus on 160 acres designed around an onsite privately owned Oncor substation, sits in the same policy window where cooling design and consumption disclosure will be checked against the new expectations before tax and interconnection assumptions hold.
August 3, 2026
Meta's El Paso Campus Hits 1 GW Without Buying a Single ServerThe developer has already secured generation, buying a substation from Oncor, and limits water use to peak cooling.
July 26, 2026
Sen. Huffman's January Bill Targets the Exemption That Built Fermi and StargateThe win came from specifics arriving before the ask: closed-loop cooling that uses zero water most of the year, long-term PPAs backing over 40 Texas projects and 9,000 MW of new generation, and years of Oncor interconnection planning that kept transmission constraints from derailing the build.
July 10, 2026
430 Opposition Groups in a Year. The Ones Who Engage Early Still Break Ground.Amp Z, the higher-profile $1 billion project, stalled with no Oncor power agreement after community opposition dominated headlines.
April 30, 2026
Kiewit Books 5.4 GW for NRG as Gas Turbine Slots Vanish Through 2029Temple's Davis is running the playbook well: separate what cities control from what ERCOT and Oncor control, quantify revenue ($7M annually rising to $12M after abatement), and refuse the zero-sum frame.
April 12, 2026
400 Projects, Two Unanswered Questions, One Legislative ClockVistra EVP Stacey Dore and Oncor VP Brian Lloyd argued data centers will optimize existing transmission and spread fixed costs, with heavy infrastructure expense falling on operators who can absorb it.
April 8, 2026
Texas Built Its Tax Break for Yesterday's Data Center MarketSamsung's $17 billion Taylor fab pulled Oncor transmission assets into eastern WilCo, directly enabling the buildout.
February 25, 2026
Co-Located Power Is the New Default. Texas Counties Can't Stop It.Near Lufkin, Amp Z is pursuing a 2.1 GW hybrid campus on a former paper mill site, combining utility service from Oncor with on-site generation.
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