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Gray County, TX

Gray County, Texas is located in the Texas Panhandle and has experienced increased interest from data center developers due to its proximity to existing power infrastructure and relatively low population density.

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June 24, 2026

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Reeves County Banks 6,000 Jobs as the Behind-the-Meter Model Scales

Project Kilby and Google's Meitner Energy Center in Gray and Roberts Counties (1 GW of wind, solar, and battery, co-located compute and generation) both skip the local grid entirely.

June 8, 2026

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Anchor Tenant, Signed Lease, Locked Power: ERCOT's New Cost of Entry

Google and Intersect Power announced the Meitner Energy Center in Gray and Roberts Counties, bundling 1+ GW of wind, solar, and storage with a co-located, air-cooled datacenter.

June 7, 2026

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Permits Hit a 49-Year High as 70% Push Back. Texas Tightens Instead.

Google broke ground on the Meitner Energy Center in Gray and Roberts Counties with Intersect, a co-located datacenter and power plant in the Panhandle.

June 6, 2026

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Meitner Is the Template. 430 GW of Applications Are About to Find Out.

Google and Intersect's Meitner Energy Center in Gray and Roberts counties is the day's defining signal: over 1 GW of dedicated wind, solar, battery, and gas generation paired with a new data center using air-cooling to hold water use to domestic levels, plus an 800-acre, 3,500-worker Caprock Workforce Hub in Wheeler County and a $10 million Texas Water Impact Fund.

June 5, 2026

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Meitner Sets the Panhandle Playbook: Own the Generation, Fund the Watershed

Google and Intersect unveiled the Meitner Energy Center in Gray and Roberts Counties, Texas: a 1+ GW data center co-located with wind, solar, battery storage, and a minority gas firming share, paired with a $10 million Texas Water Impact Fund and air-cooled design tuned for the Ogallala.

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