July 30, 2026
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Pecos, Texas is a city in West Texas that has become increasingly relevant to datacenter development due to its proximity to available land, lower costs compared to urban areas, and potential access to power infrastructure in the region.
July 30, 2026
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Ride-Through Rules Bind New Texas Loads August 1; Old Specs Won't Retrofit Cheap
July 29, 2026
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AMD's 15-Year Lease Only Pays Off If West Texas Transmission Lands on Time
July 4, 2026
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Abbott Hardens His Terms. The 2027 Legislature Holds the Pen.
June 24, 2026
Reeves County Banks 6,000 Jobs as the Behind-the-Meter Model ScalesChevron and Microsoft signed a 20-year power purchase agreement for Project Kilby, a 2.67 GW natural gas and solar facility in Reeves County near Pecos, paired directly with a Microsoft data center campus.
June 23, 2026
The Deliverable Megawatt Wins: Microsoft Locks 20 Years of Pecos GasMicrosoft and Chevron turned a four-month exclusive negotiation into a binding 20-year power agreement for Project Kilby, a 2 GW AI campus paired with dedicated gas generation near Pecos.
May 15, 2026
Behind-the-Meter Gas Is the New Default. Chevron Just Set the Texas Template.Chevron's Energy Forge One subsidiary applied for a $227 million JETI tax break on a 2,500 MW gas plant near Pecos to serve a proposed Microsoft AI campus, bypassing ERCOT's 300+ GW interconnection queue entirely.
May 8, 2026
IREN Stacks Power, GPUs, and Cloud Ops Before the Queue FillsCore Scientific is layering 3 GW across Pecos, Texas and Muskogee, Oklahoma through a hybrid of acquired contracts (440 MW via Polaris/OG&E), new construction, and behind-the-meter generation.
April 29, 2026
2,600 GW Stuck in Queue. The Winners Build Their Own Power.Core Scientific is converting its Pecos campus into a 1.5 GW AI complex with roughly 1 GW for lease, financed by $3.3 billion in senior secured notes on top of a $1 billion Morgan Stanley facility.
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