Pecos County, TX

September 19, 2026

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PUCT Locks $50K/MW Study Bond Into 16 TAC 25.194, Effective Oct 8

August 29, 2026

Amazon is clearing ground in Pecos County for GW Ranch, a 7.65 GW natural-gas plant built to power a hyperscale campus off the ERCOT queue until transmission opens.

August 24, 2026

Texas already holds more than a third of 99 tracked data-center gas plants; an Amazon Pecos County site and a Chevron-built plant for a Microsoft campus total over 10 GW private generation in West Texas.

August 11, 2026

Amazon's GW Ranch campus in Pecos County pairs the load with a dedicated 7.65 GW natural gas plant from Pacifico Energy, permitted to run disconnected from ERCOT at first and "designed to transition to grid-connected service as interconnection timelines allow," with the company stating it will pay full power costs and not raise household bills.

August 10, 2026

Amazon is building GW Ranch, a 7.65-gigawatt natural-gas facility in Pecos County designed to power its own data center rather than feed the grid.

August 8, 2026

Amazon is backing a 7.65 GW gas plant in Pecos County to power a new AI data center campus.

June 11, 2026

Pecos and Carson counties, both recently in drought, are slated for two of Texas's largest new builds.

June 9, 2026

Texas anchors that pattern: Pecos County and Carson County are receiving major builds amid sustained drought, and Texas researchers project datacenters could hit 9% of state water consumption by 2040.

June 8, 2026

Poolside's 1.2 GW Project Horizon in Pecos County is doing the same with aero-derivative gas turbines, turbine deliveries locked in for just over a year.

June 3, 2026

Poolside's Pecos County campus uses non-potable groundwater on a closed-loop design and consumes water equivalent to two acres of alfalfa daily.

February 23, 2026

Pacifico Energy's GW Ranch in Pecos County secured the largest air pollution permit ever issued in the U.S. for a 7.65 GW gas and data center complex, authorized to emit up to 33 million tons per year of greenhouse gases.

February 14, 2026

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) issued the country's largest air pollution permit to Pacifico Energy's 7.65 GW GW Ranch complex in Pecos County, authorizing up to 33 million tons per year of greenhouse gases, roughly 5% of Canada's total annual emissions.