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Wilbarger County is located in northwestern Texas and contains portions of the Permian Basin, an area increasingly relevant to datacenter power supply discussions due to its energy resources.
March 5, 2026
**When Public Markets Blink, Private Capital Buys the Grid**AES carries 11.8 GW in signed hyperscaler agreements, including a 20-year, 850 MW Google PPA with colocated renewables in Wilbarger County, Texas, 650 MW of solar committed to Meta across Texas and Kansas, and 475 MW across three Microsoft PPAs.
February 26, 2026
Turbines Ease the Power Bottleneck. 91 Billion Gallons Say Water Is Next.Google's Wilbarger County facility is designed with air cooling and water replenishment commitments, while Amazon's Louisiana deal limits on-site water use to less than 13% of the year and pledges $400 million for water infrastructure improvements.
February 25, 2026
Co-Located Power Is the New Default. Texas Counties Can't Stop It.Google and AES have locked a 20-year co-located power deal for a new data center campus in Wilbarger County, Texas, with AES owning all generation assets and providing powered land, interconnection, and energy management.
February 24, 2026
35 GW Pre-Leased, 107-Week Lead Times, Zero Margin for ErrorGoogle's new Wilbarger County deal with AES exemplifies this model: air-cooled, co-located with AES-developed generation, construction-ready with land and interconnection already under contract.
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