Reeves County, located in West Texas, has become a significant location for data center development due to its available land, lower real estate costs, and proximity to existing power infrastructure in the Permian Basin region.
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Joulent's flagship Project Kilby, a 2.67 GW natural gas campus in Reeves County, will supply a Microsoft-operated campus under a 20-year PPA, with Chevron subsidiary Energy Forge and GE Vernova as partners.
Project Kilby, a 20-year, 2.67 GW power purchase agreement, co-locates a $7 billion natural gas plant directly at a proposed Microsoft AI campus in Reeves County, bypassing ERCOT entirely.
Chevron 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.
Meanwhile, in West Texas, PowerBridge signed a lease with LandBridge for 3,400 acres in Reeves County with 2 GW of on-site generation planned and a Generation Interconnection Request already filed.