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June 2, 2026

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Ride-Through Becomes the New Phase I Discipline for Texas Sites

The vote lands the same week Hood County commissioners face eight proposed data centers totaling 7,600 acres without zoning authority to slow them, and as SoftBank commits €75 billion to 5 GW of French capacity, citing power availability as the decisive variable.

May 31, 2026

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Hill County Moratorium Heads to Federal Court. Every Texas County Is Watching.

Meanwhile SoftBank committed up to €75 billion for 5 GW in France, with EDF donating a Bouchain power plant site and Schneider Electric prefabricating power modules at Dunkirk.

May 2, 2026

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Federal AI Build Picks Gas in Months While Ohio's 9.2 GW Stalls

Contrast Ohio's Piketon project, where SoftBank's 9.2-GW plant carries $3,586/kW economics that GridLab's Ric O'Connell says "doesn't add up."

April 11, 2026

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Developers Who Testify First Write the Standards Everyone Else Follows

Ohio residents filed a petition to place a constitutional ban on mega data centers on the statewide ballot, even as SoftBank breaks ground on a 10-GW federal site at the former Portsmouth uranium facility.

April 1, 2026

SoftBank's 10-gigawatt Ohio campus, Google's $5 billion Anthropic financing in Texas, and the Army's 2.5-gigawatt Fort Bliss complex all landed in the same news cycle, confirming that AI infrastructure has entered a new phase where developers build their own power systems rather than wait for utilities.

March 25, 2026

Meanwhile, SoftBank, AEP Ohio, and DOE unveiled a $33 billion, 10-GW data center campus in Ohio structured so SB Energy funds $4.2 billion in transmission upgrades, insulating ratepayers.

March 22, 2026

SoftBank broke ground on a $33 billion, 10-gigawatt data center and power generation complex at a former DOE site in Pike County, Ohio, pairing 9.2 GW of natural gas generation with on-site computing capacity and committing $4.2 billion in new 765-kV transmission to avoid shifting costs to local ratepayers.

March 21, 2026

SoftBank is building a **10 GW data center campus** on DOE-owned land in Pike County, Ohio, backed by $33.3 billion in Japanese capital under the Trump administration's U.S.-Japan Strategic Trade and Investment Agreement.

March 14, 2026

OpenAI's Project Stargate with Oracle and SoftBank includes gas generation in Texas, and Meta's 366 MW utility gas plant in El Paso adds to the state's exposure.

March 7, 2026

and SoftBank is scrambling for $40 billion in loans.

February 20, 2026

SB Energy, SoftBank's U.S. energy arm, has been tapped to build a 9.2-GW natural gas power complex near Portsmouth, Ohio, valued at $33 billion, as the anchor project of a $550 billion U.S.-Japan strategic investment framework.

February 18, 2026

Crusoe Energy Systems, developer of the 1.2 GW Stargate campus in Abilene backed by OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle, has filed arguments that a new ERCOT approval requirement for private power agreements could impose 180-day delays on developers with billions already committed.