In the West Texas oil patch, companies plan gas power plants to run new data centers

The WA Parish Generating Station in Fort Bend County on June 25, 2023. (Reginald Mathalone/NurPhoto via REUTERS)

Texas’ environmental regulator this week issued the largest air pollution permit in the country to an enormous planned complex of gas power plants and data centers near the oilfields of the Permian Basin, according to an announcement from the project’s developers.

Pacifico Energy, a global, investor-owned infrastructure company, called its 7.65 gigawatt Ranch in Pecos County “the largest power project in the United States” in a press release this week…

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