Data Center Registry
GW Ranch
Pecos County, Texas · All 2 Pacifico Energy sites
GW Ranch is a proposed data center in Texas (Pecos County), operated by Pacifico Energy. The public record puts it at 7.7 GW planned, 8,000 acres. The record for this site rests on a single unverified source and should be read that way.
Every line on this page traces to a public source listed at the bottom. Where a figure was looked for and not found, the row says so. A blank is never a zero.
Facility record
Proposed
- Operator
- Pacifico Energy
- Facility type
- Data center, AI use likely
- Location
- Pecos County, TX
- Coordinates
- 31.0500, -102.8800
- Power capacity
- 7.7 GW planned
- Land
- 8,000 acres
- Investment
- Not established from a public source
- Announced
- Not established from a public source
- Utility
- Not established from a public source
- Power source
- On site gas
- On site generation
- 7.7 GW
- Cooling
- Not established from a public source
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- Not established from a public source
- Public subsidy
- Not established from a public source
- Community reception
- No reception on record
- Source confidence
- Rumored: a single unverified source
Opposition and litigation at this site
Nothing on record as of September 10, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over GW Ranch in Pecos County, Texas appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.
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Power and water
TCEQ air permit secured (Jan 2026) for up to 7.65GW gas-fired generation - the largest such permit in the US. Includes 1.8GW battery storage + up to 750MWac solar. Off-grid/private-network design, not ERCOT-interconnected. Developer timeline: 1GW online 2028, 5+GW by 2030-31.
Notes on the record
~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.
What the record does not establish, and the document that would
In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.
- Cooling method and water use
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- Permanent jobs promised
- How the community has received it
- Which utility serves it
Which document closes each gap
- Cooling method and water use
- The water service agreement, any groundwater appropriation permit, and the mechanical narrative in the site plan.
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
- Permanent jobs promised
- The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
- How the community has received it
- Planning commission and governing body minutes, public comment records, and any petition or lawsuit filed in the county.
- Which utility serves it
- The electric service agreement or the utility's filing with the state public utility commission.
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Other sites within 30 miles
Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.
- Amazon Pecos County Data Center Campus · Amazon Data Services, Inc.10 mi · Proposed
- Lancium Fort Stockton Clean Campus · Fort Stockton · Lancium11 mi · Operating · 325 MW
- Poolside Project Horizon AI Campus · Poolside AI11 mi · Proposed · 2 GW
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the GW Ranch data center in Pecos County, Texas?
Nothing on record as of September 10, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over GW Ranch in Pecos County, Texas appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the GW Ranch data center?
No lawsuit over GW Ranch appears in the record we track as of September 10, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.
How much water does GW Ranch use?
No water withdrawal figure for GW Ranch is on record here. Water use is rarely published voluntarily; it usually surfaces through a utility service agreement or a state withdrawal permit, both of which are public records. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.
Who operates GW Ranch, and how big is it?
Pacifico Energy is the operator on record. We hold 2 sites for that company across the registry. Capacity on record is 7.7 GW. The site is recorded at 8000 acres.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "GW Ranch," updated September 10, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/gw-ranch-pacifico-energy-pecos-county-tx.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.32.0 (September 7, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/gw-ranch-pacifico-energy-pecos-county-tx, retrieved September 14, 2026.
Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.
Sources for this record
As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.
- 1.Pacifico Energy unveils 5GW off-grid natural gas project in Texas, slated to serve a hyperscale data center · Data Center Dynamics · retrieved July 9, 2026
- 2.Developer calls GW Ranch the largest power project in the U.S. · Inside Climate News · retrieved July 9, 2026
- 3.Amazon Backs 7.65-GW Gas Plant in Texas to Power New AI Data Center Campus · Construction Review Online · retrieved August 25, 2026
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