Sites / TX / Carson
Fermi America Project Matador (Amarillo Campus)
Status: announced · Confidence: medium
Facts
| Location | Carson, TX |
|---|---|
| Capacity | 11000 MW |
| Building area | 18000000 sq ft |
| Land | 5769 acres |
| First recorded | 2026-07-07 |
| Last updated | 2026-07-07 |
Signal notes
Operator Fermi America needs an operators.yml entry (omitted here) — company led by a former Texas governor and US Energy Secretary. Capacity is a potential ceiling ("up to 11 GW" = 11000MW); building_sqft "up to 18M sq ft" is likewise a maximum. Site spans 5,769 acres adjacent to the Pantex Plant under a 99-year lease from the Texas Tech University System, near Amarillo but in Carson County (no incorporated locality). Plan includes four Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear reactors; NRC accepted the combined license application (planned/licensing) — status resolved to announced.
Sources
- https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/former-texas-governor-and-us-energy-sec-plans-11gw-data-center-campus-outside-amarillo-texas/ — DataCenterDynamics
- https://www.powermag.com/nrc-accepts-cola-for-fermi-americas-behemoth-four-unit-ap1000-nuclear-plant-in-texas/ — POWER Magazine
Signals
Raw observations behind this record (6):
sig-20260706-fermi-building-sqft,
sig-20260706-fermi-capacity,
sig-20260706-fermi-land,
sig-20260706-fermi-nuclear-status,
sig-20260706-fermi-operator,
sig-20260706-fermi-status
Record file · dataset licensed CC BY 4.0 — see provenance.