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Fermi America HyperGrid/ Project Matador

Amarillo, Carson County, TX

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Fermi America HyperGrid/ Project Matador is a under construction data center in Carson County, TX, operated by Fermi America and Texas Tech. DataCentersExposed has documented 11,000 MW of reported power capacity at this site.

Reporting by · Updated Jun 18, 2026

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Fermi America HyperGrid/ Project Matador in Amarillo, TX is contested. Petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/our-water-is-not-for-sale-protect-ogallalla-aquifer | Opposition groups have raised concerns about large groundwater withdrawals from the Ogallala Aquifer, nuclear reactor licensing, and the scale of the proposed AI campus. Track what's being decided, when, and how to weigh in.

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Power & your bill

11,000 MW of new demand — roughly a city of 8,800,000 homes.

Large new loads can raise transmission and capacity costs that land on every ratepayer. Residential power in TX is 17.0¢/kWh, up 9.5% year-over-year. (MW→homes is a rough ~800/MW planning figure.)

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Process

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Ask for an independent noise study, a water-and-power impact assessment, enforceable conditions (setbacks, hours, cooling type), and that the record stays open for written comment. Procedural shortcuts have voided approvals elsewhere.

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Operator
Fermi America and Texas Tech
Power
11,000 MW
Attribution & capacity confidence:mediumprimary source

Overview

source: link

Purpose: AI. Plans to be nuclear powered. Major tenant funding source collapsed 12/12/2025. The project is co-founded by former U.S. Energy Secretary and Texas Governor Rick Perry and his son Griffin, in partnership with Texas Tech University. 6 GW are already permitted on 7,570 acres in the Texas Panhandle, with ~2 GW of generation assets secured and the first phase of construction completed. Developers have proposed up to 17 GW at full build Imported from the FracTracker Alliance U.S. Data Centers Tracker after review. Details to be corroborated from primary sources.

Operator chain

Grid & water — why here

source: HIFLD · EPA
Nearest substation
1.5 mi
Pantex South · 115 kV
Transmission line
1.1 mi
115 kV line
Municipal water
No service area
self-supplied or unmapped

The closest existing grid infrastructure and the municipal water system this location sits in — the same constraints the buildout model screens on (it won't site a campus more than ~2 km from a substation or ~5 km from municipal water). Distances are straight-line to public HIFLD/EPA features, not a metered connection.

In the news

source: GDELT

Tax breaks & subsidies

source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77

No per-deal tax break is linked to this site yet. No state discloses the recipient of a data-center abatement at the facility level, so per-site deals are rare in the public record. If you have a development agreement or board resolution for this site, send it to us.

Statewide cost of this incentive

Texas reported $16.1M in Property used in certain large data center projects; temporary exemption (Texas Tax Code § 151.3595) for FY2025 (Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts). Program-wide, not attributable to this site.

source · All Texas subsidies →

Water use

No public record of this facility's water use. We check state withdrawal reporting for self-supplied sites; municipally supplied sites only become visible through a public-records request to the local water utility — a per-facility request tool is coming. If you have a utility document for this site, send it to us.

EPA permits & violations

source: EPA ECHO

No reported violations as of last sync.

Nearest school

source: HIFLD / NCES

The nearest public school, Highland Park H S in Amarillo, is 6.3 mi from this site (228 students).

Schools are sensitive receptors for the noise, backup-generator exhaust, and traffic a large data center brings. Straight-line distance to the nearest public school (HIFLD/NCES, US public schools only).

Hearings timeline

No public-hearing records linked to this site yet. We surface planning-commission and board-of-supervisors dates when a record names a facility. If you know of a hearing on this site, tell us.

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