Corporate January 2, 2026 TPL × Bolt Permian Data Center Program

Schmidt sizes the Bolt program: gas first to 1 GW, ambition of 10 GW

Two weeks after the TPL agreement, Eric Schmidt put numbers and a sequence on a program that was announced without either. Bolt starts on natural gas toward an initial 1 GW, targets roughly 10 GW long term, and expects to add wind, solar and storage before nuclear later.

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