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Pecos County has become the Permian's proving ground for islanded compute power: Pacifico's GW Ranch (the largest permitted data center power campus in the US) and Poolside's 2 GW Project Horizon both bypass ERCOT entirely on Waha Hub gas, while an older grid-tied generation — Lancium's Clean Campus, Cormint, and the Tarbush mine — pioneered flexible load on the local TNMP system. The county trades multi-billion-dollar Chapter 381 investment against 12,000+ tons/yr of permitted local pollutants, 33M tons/yr of GHG headroom, and severe drought exposure. (Ingest note: this export embedded most numeric values as inline images; figures below are taken from the report's prose and cross-checked against the July 10, 2026 update where the tables were unreadable.)
Texas is projected to overtake Virginia as the world's largest data center market by 2030, and Pecos County is one of its focal points for massive computing campuses. ERCOT congestion and multi-year interconnection queues pushed county developers toward localized, behind-the-meter, and completely off-grid power — enabled by proximity to the Waha Hub, one of North America's most significant natural gas markets. Self-contained systems combining gas turbines, batteries, and solar accelerate deployment and dodge transmission fees, but concentrate air emissions and water stress in a drought-hit county.
| Project / developer | Capacity | Grid posture | Land | Cost | Workloads | Timeline |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GW Ranch Energy Center — Pacifico GW LLC | 7.65 GW gas + 1.8 GW BESS + 750 MW solar | Self-generation, islanded (off-grid private grid) | 8,000+ build-ready acres | Multi-billion (undisclosed) | Hyperscale AI compute | Early works mid-2026; Phase 1 (1 GW) H1 2027 |
| Project Horizon — Poolside AI / CoreWeave (per this report) | 2 GW ultimate; Phase 1 250 MW; 576 MW BTM gas | Self-generation BTM gas (grid backup only) | 559-acre footprint | $5.5B abatement valuation; ~$16B industry-standard for 2 GW | CoreWeave (anchor per report) + Poolside AI | Start Oct 2025; initial GPUs Dec 2025 |
| Fort Stockton Clean Campus — Lancium, LLC | 25 MW active / 325 MW planned | ERCOT grid (CLR) + Broad Reach Power BESS | ~200 acres | ~$800M (Ch. 381 commitment) | Bitcoin + high-throughput compute | Start late 2021; Phase 1 online Q1 2022 |
| Cormint West Texas — Cormint Data Systems | 130 MW active; expansion planned by late 2026 (target figure image-embedded in export) | ERCOT grid — company-owned 130 MW substation, near Sherbino I Wind | 814 acres | $80M+ equity and debt raised | Self-mining (bitcoin) | Scaling pre-2024; 130 MW mid-2025 |
| Tarbush Mining Site — Lonestar Dream / China Green Agriculture | Shares 100 MW with Pyote (Ward Co.) | ERCOT grid — Tarbush–Leon Creek 138-kV line | 4143 N US Hwy 285 (see geography flag) | $49M stock-purchase acquisition | Self-mining + hosting | Active late 2023 |
Figures reconstructed from prose and the July 10 update; the June export's table values were embedded as images.