Fermi America Project Matador
Carson County, TX
Construction is under way on Fermi America Project Matador in Carson County, TX. The project is sized at 11,000 MW. 5,800-acre 'HyperGrid' energy-and-AI-data-center campus near Amarillo (Carson County), co-founded by Rick Perry and developed with the Texas Tech University System. Targets 11 GW total from a mix of natural gas (~50%), four Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear reactors (~40-45%), solar and battery storage. TCEQ granted preliminary approval for the first 6 GW natural-gas phase in November 2025 per Fermi's own press release; foundation/site work was underway as of October 2025. A tracker lists a separate 'Project Matador East' gas-plant phase, but no independent primary source was found naming it as a distinct project apart from the main Matador campus, so it is treated here as one project.
- 11,000 MWPlanned capacity
Project status
- Announced
- Permitting
- Under construction
- Operational
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Texas state legislation
- PUCT Docket No. 59475 - Oncor/LCRA Bell County East Switch-Big Hill 765kV Transmission LineFiled March 2026; 122 alternative routes, 835+ protests. Explicitly justified by data-center load concentration in the Temple/Bell/Williamson County corridor; an intervenor has questioned whether specific "Temple Data Centers" were properly included in the load forecast.Download
- PUCT Docket No. 59142 - ERCOT Large Load Interconnection "Batch Zero" ProcessPUCT approved (~June 2026) ERCOT's one-time transitional study process for ≥75MW load interconnection requests; tied to Gov. Abbott's Aug 2026 directive pausing/auditing the queue. CenterPoint reported ~14GW of its own projects positioned in this batch.Download
- PUCT Project No. 58481 - Large Load Interconnection Standards Rulemaking (PURA §37.0561)Statewide rulemaking adopting 16 TAC §25.194, interconnection standards for new/expanding loads ≥75MW (data centers). Adopted 2026 with a flat $100k study fee, eliminated non-refundable interconnection fee.Download
- Economic Development Program Agreement (Seafox) / Tax Abatement & Road Improvements AgreementsMOU-based economic development program agreement (plus a Chapter 312 tax abatement agreement and a road-improvements development agreement) covering a data center project in El Paso.Download
- PUCT Docket No. 59399 - Comanche Peak Power Company Net Metering Application (Amazon)Pending as of mid-2026 -- test case for data center co-location against dispatchable (nuclear) generation. Amazon data center campus paired with the Comanche Peak nuclear plant, Somervell County.Download
Site details
- Operator
- Fermi America
- County
- Carson County, TX
- Capacity
- 11,000 MW
- Address
- Carson County, TX
- Stage
- Under construction
Size: not on file
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Aerial imageryAerial imagery: USGS The National Map (public domain)
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