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July 7, 2026

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The Permian Gets Texas's First 765 kV Backbone, and CREZ Wrote the Playbook

The cautionary contrast sits out of state: Utah's Stratos collapsed from 40,000 acres after bypassing county zoning, and Virginia's Q

July 5, 2026

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Self-Supply Is Now the Floor for Political Viability in Texas

Developers who've disclosed water strategy to counties early, or who design around water-light cooling like the Valar Atomics and Nvidia 30 MW nuclear concept in Utah, will clear mandatory reporting faster than operators caught flat-footed.

July 2, 2026

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FERC Orders Six Grid Operators to Defend the Rules or Rewrite Them

Valar Atomics and Nvidia demonstrated the first pairing of a microreactor with a Blackwell-powered data center in Utah, using helium cooling to sidestep water entirely.

June 15, 2026

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Texas's June 23 Hearing Opens the Water Rulebook Before It Hardens

Meanwhile Joule Capital Partners is bypassing the queue entirely, deploying 636 Caterpillar natural gas engines toward 1.5 GW of captive generation on a 4,000-acre Utah campus, with hosting starting this year.

June 11, 2026

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Abbott Names July 17. The 2027 Rulebook Starts Getting Written Now.

Utah's Stratos approval triggered hundreds of protestors and a 6,200-signature petition against a Nevada project from a Texas-based developer despite a fully closed-loop design.

June 7, 2026

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

Utah's Stratos Project, backed by Kevin O'Leary, learned the cost of vagueness the hard way.

May 19, 2026

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NextEra Pays $67B for the Playbook Texas Has Run Since 2024

Out of state, New Jersey faces a 60-group coalition petition and five legislative bills targeting 20 MW-plus facilities, Pennsylvania's House passed four bills the Senate has stalled, and Utah's HB 60 has narrowed the State Engineer's "public welfare" authority to water pollution and scarcity grounds.

April 16, 2026

Utah faces a similar squeeze: 920 MW of current data center capacity will triple to 3,500 MW as 2,600 MW come under construction, with the North American Electricity Reliability Corporation projecting elevated grid risk there beginning in 2031.

March 9, 2026

Tech firms are responding rationally: building captive power plants or siting adjacent to generation to sidestep transmission entirely. Novva in Utah and Thunderhead Energy Solutions, which proposed **23 GW across Texas, Montana, and Illinois** plus a 5,000 MW gas plant in Winkler County, West Texas, both sought EPA air quality exemptions to fast-track on-site generation.

March 8, 2026

Utah: 350+ residents packed an Iron County hearing opposing the 1.5 GW Antelope Data Center

March 3, 2026

Caterpillar separately committed 4 GW of total capacity to a Joule Capital Partners campus in Utah.

February 28, 2026

Joule Capital Partners is deploying 1.5 GW of onsite natural gas generation across a 4,000-acre Utah campus, with Wheeler Machinery delivering 636 Caterpillar engines starting March 2025 and 455 MW firm by end of 2026.