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Amazon has acquired an 8,000-acre site in Pecos, Texas, for a planned data center campus tied to a large on-site power project, according to reporting cited in the original report and subsequent confirmation from the company.
The land, known as the GW Ranch site in Pecos County, was acquired from Pacifico Energy, according to reporting from Cleanview. Amazon intends to build a behind-the-meter powered data center there.
Permits for the energy project show a natural gas plant made up of 35 turbines with up to 7.65GW of power capacity. The site developer, Pacifico, obtained a 7.65GW air permit from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
Amazon said the Pecos County campus is intended to use new on-site generation before eventually moving to grid-connected service.
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"Amazon believes in paying the full costs of powering our operations", a spokesperson said in a statement. "Our new planned data center campus in Pecos County does just that: it’s powered by new on-site generation that won’t raise electricity costs for Texas families and designed to transition to grid-connected service as interconnection timelines allow."
The off-grid power project was announced last year and is expected to be located on an 8,000+ acre plot in Pecos County. Reporting at the time said the project is expected to combine natural gas generation with 1.8GW of battery storage and 750MW of solar, creating a standalone energy platform intended to support multi-phase data center deployments.
Amazon had been linked to the site earlier this month after filing three construction permits with the state outlining plans for three data center buildings, with construction expected to start immediately. Following those reports, Amazon confirmed it had acquired the GW Ranch site and said it intends to purchase generation from the site.
The deal comes amid what the original report described as a growing trend of hyperscalers turning to natural gas for large-scale AI data center development. Last week, it was reported that Amazon was exploring development of a data center at a natural gas plant outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Before that, Microsoft announced plans for a 2GW development in Pecos, Texas, powered by a 2.67GW natural gas plant.
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