This is a source-attributed discovery row. It can help you find a place and its citations; it is not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is distinct or currently operating.
Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Pacifico Energy
- Address and locality
- Pecos County · Texas
- Lifecycle status
- reported proposed
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 7,650 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 10 September 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- rumored
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000762
What the source record says
~17 miles north of Fort Stockton. This is fundamentally a power-generation project 'purpose-built to support hyperscale data center operators' (per Data Center Dynamics), but no data center tenant/operator has been named - classified 'rumored' confidence on the data-center use specifically. Distinct from the existing tracked Microsoft/Core Scientific 'Pecos' entries (those are in Reeves County, not Pecos County). Coordinates are approximate. Data center tenant unidentified. Public-reception check (2026-09-10): TCEQ approved the site's air permit (up to 7.65GW gas-fired, authorized to emit 12,000+ tons/yr of regulated pollutants per permitting documents) in early 2026. Checked an oil-and-gas-watchdog outlet (a source that actively covers this project's environmental profile in detail) and it documents no local opposition, hearing record, or resident reaction to GW Ranch specifically -- only industry/regulatory facts. The original DCD source and a second outlet (Inside Climate News) both 403'd on fetch. No community-reception record found in the source actually retrieved.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
No status history was supplied in this edition.
Sources and attribution
- Pacifico Energy unveils 5GW off-grid natural gas project in Texas, slated to serve a hyperscale data center · Data Center Dynamics
- Developer calls GW Ranch the largest power project in the U.S. · Inside Climate News
- Amazon Backs 7.65-GW Gas Plant in Texas to Power New AI Data Center Campus · Construction Review Online
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID gw-ranch-pacifico-energy-pecos-county-tx. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added.
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