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Wheeler County, TX

Wheeler County, located in the Texas Panhandle, has become a site for natural gas-based power generation and data center development due to its access to abundant energy resources and proximity to existing infrastructure.

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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.

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